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The Effects of Bureaucracy on Political Accountability and Electoral Selection
Yazaki, Yukihiro - 2016
This paper examines how bureaucracy affects political accountability and electoral selection, using a three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012981308
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Economic voting and economic revolutionizing? : the economics of incumbency changes in European democracies and revolutionary events in the Arab World
Möller, Marie - 2011
; Degree of Democracy ; Dictatorship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009382370
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The effect of elections on economic growth : results from a natural experiment in Indonesia
Moricz, Sara; Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2014
Does democracy increase economic growth? Previous literature tends to find a positive effect but does also suffer from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010392574
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Democracy and Economic Growth : Do Swing Voters Make a Difference?
Bhardwaj, Abhishek - 2017
the swing voters strengthen the positive association between democracy and growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970508
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Happy Voters
Liberini, Federica - 2014
Motivated by recent interest and initiatives taken by several governments and international organizations to come up with indicators of well-being to inform policy makers, we test if subjective well-being measures (SWB) can be employed to study voting behaviour. Controlling for financial and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046234
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Electoral cycles in perceived corruption : international empirical evidence
Potrafke, Niklas - 2018
Perceived corruption in the public sector is measured by the reversed Transparency International's Perception of Corruption Index (CPI). The dataset includes around 100 democracies over the period 2012-2016, a sample for which the CPI is comparable across countries and over time. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011962213
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Electoral cycles in perceived corruption : international empirical evidence
Potrafke, Niklas - 2018
I examine whether elections influence perceived corruption in the public sector. Perceived corruption in the public sector is measured by the reversed Transparency International's Perception of Corruption Index (CPI). The dataset includes around 100 democracies over the period 2012-2016, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011941292
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Do voters dislike liberalizing reforms? : new evidence using data on satisfaction with democracy
Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2018
reforms and even be less satisfied with democracy as such. We test this hypothesis empirically, using panel data from 30 … European countries in the period 1993-2015. The dependent variable is the average satisfaction with democracy, while the reform …. Our results indicate that while reforms of government size are not robustly related to satisfaction with democracy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011787907
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Do Natural Resources Influence Who Comes to Power, and How?
Carreri, Maria; Dube, Oeindrila - 2016
local democracy in Colombia, a country mired in civil conflict. We find that when the price of oil rises, legislators … undermine democracy by distorting elections, and suggest that conflict leaves the political sector vulnerable to the resource …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014130345
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Direct Democracy, Voter Preferences and Government Spending
Funk, Patricia; Gathmann, Christina - 2013
conservative, less in favor of redistribution and less supportive of public spending tend to have stronger direct democracy. We … canton characteristics. We then revisit the relationship between direct democracy and public spending. Once we fully control … for voter preferences, the cross-sectional correlation between direct democracy and government spending declines by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014062880