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Electoral control when policies are for sale
Farvaque, Étienne; Lagadec, Gael - 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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A micro perspective on political competition : electoral availability in the European electorates
Wagner, Aiko - 2017
This article develops an empirical measure of electoral availability, i.e., the micro perspective of political competition. As existing research conceptualizes political competition mainly as a macro- or party-level phenomenon, the micro perspective remains underdeveloped and, therefore, an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012127110
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Cycles in team tennis and other paired-element contests
Sanders, Shane; Ehrlich, Justin; Boudreau, James - In: Games 8 (2017) 3, pp. 1-14
Team Tennis competitions produce aggregate scores for teams, and thus team rankings, based on head-to-head matchups of individual team members. Similar scoring rules can be used to rank any two groups that must be compared on the basis of paired elements. We explore such rules in terms of their...
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Yardstick competition, corruption, and electoral incentives
Long, Ngo Van (contributor);  … - 2008
the static setting with a dynamic scenario where each incumbent politician faces an election after a finite, fixed term …
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Majority-efficiency and competition-efficiency in a binary policy model
Krasa, Stefan (contributor); Polborn, Mattias (contributor) - 2007
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Voting Costs and Voter Turnout in Competitive Elections
Fraga, Bernard L - 2010
developing the theory, we turn to a voting cost that is randomly assigned and exogenous to politics - Election Day rain storms …
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Concurrence électorale et positionnement des partis politiques
De Donder, Philippe; Gallego, Maria - In: L' Actualité économique : revue trimest. 93 (2017) 1/2, pp. 113-140
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Measuring the competitiveness of elections
Cox, Gary W.; Fiva, Jon H.; Smith, Daniel M. - 2018
The concept of electoral competition plays a central role in many subfields of political science, but no consensus exists on how to measure it. One key challenge is how to conceptualize and measure electoral competitiveness at the district level across alternative electoral systems. Recent...
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Gambling for re-election
Langtry, Alastair; Potrafke, Niklas; Schlepper, Marcel; … - 2024
economic decision-making – is important in politics. We show that politicians ‘gamble for re-election’ in the context of a … on MPs’ individual decisions in a de facto vote for the 2021 leadership election of Germany’s centre-right parties. MPs … are more likely to vote for a riskier candidate when faced with tougher re-election races in their constituency …
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The Lopsided Dynamics of Competitive Elections
Møller, Jørgen; Skaaning, Svend-Erik - 2011
In this paper, we present the contours of a theoretical model which endeavours to capture some important current dynamics of regime change. The model suggests that, in the aggregate, structural factors constrain the presence of electoral competition increasingly less. We attribute this to two...
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