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Organized Crime and Electoral Outcomes in Sicily
Buonanno, Paolo - 2014
This paper investigates the relationship between mafia and politics by focusing on the market for votes. It exploits … the fact that in the early 1990s the Italian party system collapsed, new parties emerged and mafia families had to look … between 1994 and 2008 Silvio Berlusconi's party, Forza Italia, obtained higher vote shares in municipalities plagued by mafia …
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The Mexican drug war : elections and homicides
García-Ramos, Aixa - 2022
Mexico has experienced a dramatic increase in violence during the last decade. This increase has been associated with turf wars among Drug Trafficking Organisations (DTOs) for the control of strategic territories. This paper examines whether these territorial disputes are higher during the lame...
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Organized crime and electoral outcomes in Sicily
Buonanno, Paolo; Prarolo, Giovanni; Vanin, Paolo - 2014
This paper investigates the relationship between mafia and politics by focusing on the market for votes. It exploits … the fact that in the early 1990s the Italian party system collapsed, new parties emerged and mafia families had to look … between 1994 and 2008 Silvio Berlusconi's party, Forza Italia, obtained higher vote shares in municipalities plagued by mafia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716027
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Mafia in the Ballot Box
De Feo, Giuseppe; De Luca, Giacomo - 2014
We study the impact of organized crime on electoral competition. In a theoretical model where parties compete for mafia … support, we show that (i) the strongest party is willing to pay the highest price to secure mafia services; (ii) the volume of … electoral trade with the mafia increases with political competition and with the efficiency of the mafia organization. Guided by …
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Why are Mexican politicians being assassinated? : the role of oil theft and narcocracy and the electoral consequences of organized crime
Gutiérrez-Romero, Roxana; Iturbe, Nayely - 2023
When does organized crime resort to assassinating politicians? In narcocracies, criminal groups co-opt political elites through bribery in exchange for protection to traffic illegal drugs. When criminal groups compete, they may also resort to political violence to influence which candidate wins...
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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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Electoral control when policies are for sale
Farvaque, Etienne; Lagadec, Gaël - 2009
This article analyses the dynamics of electoral promises, building on an electoral competition model with endogenous policies. It extends the Grossman-Helpman (1994) model [Grossman G., Helpman E. [1994], Protection for sale, American Economic Review, 84, 4, 833-850] to include sanctions from...
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Political motivations and electoral competition : equilibrium analysis and experimental evidence
Drouvelis, Michalis; Saporiti, Alejandro; Vriend, … - 2013
We study both theoretically and experimentally the set of Nash equilibria of a classical one-dimensional election game with two candidates. These candidates are interested in power and ideology, but their weights on these two motives are not necessarily identical. Apart from obtaining the well...
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Vox populi, vox dei? : tacit collusion in politics
Johansson, Christian; Kärnä, Anders; Meriläinen, Jaakko - 2021
We study competition between political parties in repeated elections with probabilistic voting, allowing a multidimensional policy space and multiple political parties. This model entails multiple equilibria. When parties hold different opinions on some policy, they may take different policy...
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Out of communal land: clientelism through delegation of agricultural tenancy contracts
Kurosaki, Takashi; Paul, Saumik; Witoelar, Firman - 2021
Do local institutions influence the nature of political clientelist exchange? We find a positive answer in the context of a village institution prevalent in Java since the Dutch colonial rule, where democratically elected village heads receive usufruct rights over a piece of communal village...
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