restriction (or punishment) used by presidents when in government. …

state of the world, and inferior in the other. Governments are either benevolent, serving the interest of the voter, or rent …-seeking. An equilibrium with yardstick competition is shown to exist where bad governments having a good government in their …

lacks a cross‐regional perspective. Drawing on relational sociology, this paper explores the impact of state power in … state’s infrastructural and discursive power. Most associations interviewed by us in the three countries accept or do not … openly reject the state’s and/or the state ruling party’s various forms of interference in internal decision‐making processes …