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Partisan politics and executive accountability : Argentina in comparative perspective
Bowen, Jeff; Rose-Ackerman, Susan - In: Supreme Court economic review 10 (2003), pp. 157-210
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001760980
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Explaining institutional change : why elected politicians implement direct democracy
Hugh-Jones, David - 2008
creating these institutions. I build a model of direct democracy that explains why a representative might benefit from tying … that some politicians benefit from the introduction of direct democracy, since they are more likely to survive … representative elections: direct democracy credibly prevents politicians from realising extreme outcomes. Historical evidence from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003796322
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Building Democracy in Quicksand : Altruism, Empire and the United States
Faguet, Jean-Paul - 2004
the inherent difficulty of planting democracy in so inhospitable a social environment as Iraq's. This paper examines the … society in making democracy work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014071538
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Keep your Enemies Closer : Strategic Platform Adjustments during U.S. and French Elections
Di Tella, Rafael; Kotti, Randy; Le Pennec-Çaldichoury, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
A key tenet of representative democracy is that politicians' discourse and policies should follow voters' preferences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322890
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Distributional preferences in probabilistic and share contests
Hoffmann, Magnus; Kolmar, Martin - 2013
We analyze Nash equilibria of share and probabilistic contests when players have distributional preferences. If players are sufficiently similar, distributional preferences create multiple equilibria. For the case of only mildly heterogeneous players, equilibrium effort can be lower as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009727108
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Brothers in arms : an experiment on the alliance puzzle
Ke, Changxia; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 2012
The generic alliance game considers players in an alliance who fight against an external enemy. After victory, the alliance may break up, and its members fight against each other about the spoils of the victory. Our experimental analysis of this game shows: In-group solidarity vanishes after the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009671102
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Anti-Elite Politics and Emotional Reactions to Socio-Economic Problems. Experimental Evidence on 'Pocketbook Anger' from France, Germany, and the United States
Marx, Paul - 2019
Many observers have noticed the importance of anger in contemporary politics, particularly with reference to populism. This article addresses the question under which conditions people become angry about a specific aspect of their lives: their personal financial situation. Specifically, it asks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870139
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Terrorism and Voting Behavior : Evidence from the United States
Baccini, Leonardo; Brodeur, Abel; Nossek, Sean; Shor, Eran - 2021
This paper examines the impact of terrorism on voting behavior in the United States. We rely on an exhaustive list of terror attacks over the period 1970-2016 and exploit the inherent randomness of the success or failure of terror attacks to identify the political impacts of terrorism. We first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013250776
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Revisiting Negative Externalities of U.S. Military Bases : The Case of Okinawa
Hikotani, Takako; Horiuchi, Yusaku; Tago, Atsushi - 2021
In a recently published article, Allen et al. (2020) argue that U.S. military deployments nurture favorable attitudes toward the U.S. among foreign citizens. Their claim is based on social contact and economic compensation theories, applied to a large-scale cross-national survey project funded...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013245195
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Terrorism and voting behavior: evidence from the United States
Baccini, Leonardo; Brodeur, Abel; Nossek, Sean; Shor, Eran - 2021
This paper examines the impact of terrorism on voting behavior in the United States. We rely on an exhaustive list of terror attacks over the period 1970-2016 and exploit the inherent randomness of the success or failure of terror attacks to identify the political impacts of terrorism. We first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012418449