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The economic analysis of populism a selective review of the literature

Ocampo, Emilio - 2019

Although the application of the conceptual and analytical framework of economics to the study of populism is still in its infancy, great advances have been made in recent years. This paper reviews some key contributions behind this progress. When analyzing populism, economists face two...

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Policy reforms and the amount of checks & balances

Gersbach, Hans; Tejada, Oriol; Wagner, Julia - 2022

We examine how democracies choose their amount of checks and balances (C&B). For this purpose, we consider a simple model of political competition with costly policy reforms. The cost of a marginal reform is determined endogenously at the constitutional phase-i.e. before policies are...

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The political costs of oil price shocks

Arezki, Rabah; Djankov, Simeon; Nguyen, Ha; Yotzov, Ivan - 2022

We explore the effect of oil import price shocks on political outcomes using a worldwide dataset on elections of chief executives. Oil import price shocks cause a reduction in the odds of reelection of incumbents, an increase in media chatter about fuel prices, and an increase in non-violent...

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Securing personal freedom through institutions : the role of electoral democracy and judicial independence

Berggren, Niclas; Gutmann, Jerg - 2019

freedom is frequently associated with electoral democracy, developments in countries such as Hungary, Poland, Turkey and … Russia, where elected populist leaders with authoritarian tendencies rule, suggest that electoral democracy may not be the … provide a firmer foundation. We investigate empirically how electoral democracy and judicial independence relate to personal …

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Distributional consequences of political representation : conference paper

Maaser, Nicola; Stratmann, Thomas - 2014

We investigate the geographical concentration of representatives and the distribution of fiscal transfers both theoretically and empirically. We develop a model which predicts that funds to an area are positively correlated with the number of representatives residing in that area. Our empirical...

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Inequality, macroeconomic performance and political polarization : a panel analysis of 20 advanced democracies

Proano, Christian; Peña, Juan Carlos; Saalfeld, Thomas - 2020

This paper investigates the macroeconomic and social determinants of voting behavior, and especially of political polarization, in 20 advanced countries using annual data ranging from 1970 to 2016 and covering 291 parliamentary elections. Using a panel estimation approach and rolling...

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Religious Origins of Democracies and Dictatorships

Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2013

provide a historical overview that designates the Jewish kibbutz as the collective of democracy and the Russian …

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Securing personal freedom through institutions : the role of electoral democracy and judicial independence

Berggren, Niclas; Gutmann, Jerg - 2019

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Political accountability during crises : evidence from 40 years of financial policies

Saka, Orkun; Ji, Yuemei; Minaudier, Clement - 2024

We show that politicians facing a binding term limit are more likely to engage in financial de-liberalisation than those facing re-election, but only in the wake of a financial crisis. In particular, they implement policies that tend to favour incumbent financial institutions over the general...

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Inequality, infrastructure, and institutions : empirical studies in public economics and political economy

Dorn, Florian - 2021

Florian Dorn erstellte diesen Beitrag während seines Promotionsstudiums an der Universität München (LMU). Die Studie wurde im September 2020 abgeschlossen und von der Fakultät für Volkswirtschaftslehre als Dissertation angenommen. Die Dissertation trägt zur Empirie der Ökonomie des...

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