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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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The Power of Money. The Consequences of Electing a Donor Funded Politician

Ruiz, Nelson A. - 2020

Do donor-funded politicians benefit their donors disproportionately? If so, how? This paper examines the impact of electing donor-funded politicians using a novel dataset that uniquely links campaign donors with recipients of public contracts during mayors' incumbency period in Colombia. Using a...

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Farewell President! Political Favoritism, Economic Inequality, and Political Polarization

Cheng, Hui-Pei - 2020

This paper examines the effect of political favoritism on economic inequality in the short run and political polarization in the long run. We exploit the sudden death of an authoritarian leader - President Chiang Ching-Kuo of Taiwan - in 1988 to generate plausibly exogenous variation in...

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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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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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Political Ideology and Generosity Around the Globe

Pizziol, Veronica; Demaj, Xhiselda; Di Paolo, Roberto; … - 2023

captures one’s beliefs, values, and opinions about society: political ideology. We study the donation decisions of more than 46 … also examine the association between political ideology and national generosity without hypothesizing any direction. We … governance, which is found to have significant informative power in explaining the relationship between political ideology and …

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Globalization, Time-Preferences, and Populist Voting

Aronsson, Thomas - 2020

Societies see growing support for populist politicians who advocate an end to globalization. Our behavioral economics model links impatience to voters' appraisals of an income shock due to globalization that is associated with short-run costs and delayed gains. The model shows that impatient...

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Chapter 50 Understanding Political Corruption in Low Income Countries

Pande, Rohini - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 4, (pp. 3155-3184). 2007

Building on the large and growing empirical literature on the political behavior of individuals in low income countries, this Chapter seeks to understand corruption through the lens of political economy – particularly in terms of the political and economic differences between rich and poor...

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Income inequality and political polarization

Marz, Waldemar - 2024

Value issues such as climate policy, immigration, or identity politics are among the most polarizing policy issues in the U.S. and other high-income countries. That polarization has been rising over the last decades. I investigate a novel channel of income inequality and political campaign...

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Political Competition vs. Political Participation : Effects on Government's Size

Eterovic, Dalibor S.; Eterovic, Nicolas A. - 2022

From a theoretical standpoint, there are reasons to believe that political competition and political participation might have opposite effects on the size of government. We investigate empirically this possibility using data from a panel of 104 countries from 1960. We find that reforms enhancing...

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