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How much income redistribution? : an explanation based on vote-buying and corruption

Balafoutas, Loukas - 2009

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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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An Enquiry into People's Preferences of Communist Parties in West Bengal and Kerala : Examining Electoral Data

Kaushik, Arun Kumar; Goyal, Yugank - 2018

West Bengal and Kerala are often juxtaposed with each other under a common communist identity in most scholarly and policy discourse. In this paper, we deconstruct these linkages by looking at data revealed by the election results in the two states in last five decades. In light of our...

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Chapter 17. Media Capture : Empirical Evidence

Enikolopov, Ruben; Petrova, Maria - 2015

This chapter overviews the empirical literature on the determinants and the consequences of media capture, i.e., the situation in which governments or other interest groups try to control the content of media outlets. We start by examining the evidence on the effect of media capture on the...

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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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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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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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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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Can Television Bring down a Dictator? Evidence from Chile's ‘No’ Campaign

González, Felipe - 2017

Can televised political advertising change voting behavior in elections held in authoritarian regimes? We study the case of Chile, where the opposition used television campaigns weeks before the election that ended the seventeen-year dictatorship known as the Pinochet regime. Using national...

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