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How much income redistribution? : an explanation based on vote-buying and corruption
Balafoutas, Loukas - 2009 - This version: December 21, 2009
fund capture. A model is presented where rich voters can block redistribution by buying the votes of some poor voters. In … equilibrium there is only limited redistribution and income tax rates are a negative function of government corruption. When rich …. -- tax rates ; vote-buying ; lobbying ; government corruption …
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How much income redistribution? : an explanation based on vote-buying and corruption
Balafoutas, Loukas - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008657575
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Going Negative in Autocracy : A Field Experiment at the Moscow Mayoral Elections
Mironov, Maxim - 2020
Modern autocracies today hold elections but employ a number of tactics to control election outcomes. In response to unfairness of elections, opposition may organize negative campaign to persuade the electorate to vote against a regime candidate. The goal of this paper is to measure the...
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The Political Economy of the Prussian Three-Class Franchise
Becker, Sascha O. - 2019
Did the Prussian three-class franchise, which politically over-represented the economic elite, affect policy-making? Combining MP-level political orientation, derived from all roll call votes in the Prussian parliament (1867-1903), with constituency characteristics, we analyze how local vote...
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Voting Islamist or voting secular? : an empirical analysis of voting outcomes in "Arab Spring" Egypt
Elsayyad, May; Hanafy, Shima'a - 2012 - This version: 29. November 2012
This paper empirically studies the voting outcomes of Egypt's first parliamentary elections after the Arab Spring. In light of the strong Islamist success in the polls, we explore the main determinants of Islamist vs. secular voting. We identify three dimensions that affect voting outcomes at...
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Elections, Protest and Trust in Government : A Natural Experiment from Russia
Frye, Timothy; Borisova, Ekaterina - 2021
How do flawed elections and post-election protest shape political attitudes? Taking advantage of the largely exogenous variation in the timing of a survey conducted in Moscow, we examine the short-term impact of the parliamentary election of December 4th, and the large protest of December 10th...
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The political economy of the Prussian three-class franchise
Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik - 2019
Did the Prussian three-class franchise, which politically over-represented the economic elite, affect policy-making? Combining MP-level political orientation, derived from all roll call votes in the Prussian parliament (1867-1903), with constituency characteristics, we analyze how local vote...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012065064
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Did sanctions help Putin?
Peeva, Aleksandra - 2019
Do sanctions strengthen the targeted regime? I analyze the 2014 imposition of Western sanctions on Russia and its impact on voting. The US and the EU introduced targeted measures against Russian entities and individuals related to Putin's regime. Using polling station-level data I investigate...
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Extra votes to signal loyalty : regional political cycles and national elections in Russia
Sidorkin, Oleg; Vorobyev, Dmitriy - 2018
Under the system of appointing regional governors by the president, which existed in Russia between 2005-2012, governors' loyalty to the central government and particularly their ability to deliver satisfactory results to the ruling party in national-level elections were crucial to their...
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Radio and the rise of Nazi in pre-war Germany : conference paper
Adena, Maja; Enikolopov, Ruben; Petrova, Maria; … - 2013
How far can media undermine democratic institutions and how persuasive can it be in assuring public support for dictator policies? We study this question in the context of Germany before World War II, between 1929 and 1939. First, we estimate the impact of radio signal on voting for the Nazi...
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