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promises, and explores the distributional consequences of this decision, in a setting where party credibility can vary. When … campaign promises. When political credibility is sufficiently low, some voter groups are targeted only with vote buying and not …
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In their pursuit of being elected, politicians might not provide their constituents with independent viewpoints, but just try to outguess popular opinion. Although rational voters see through such populism, candidates can not resist resorting to it when the spoils of office are too large. For an...
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assembly. Since 2005, however, they have had to compete in an open election where voters directly choose their preferred leader …
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first election in which Erdoğan is not the clear favourite. Six opposition parties of different ideological origins have … government would need to undertake the arduous tasks of establishing a meritocratic bureaucracy, restructuring Turkey …
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Two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999 exposed rampant corruption involving construction and … incompetence. How voters responded to these in the next election held in 2002 is investigated. The fact that different group of …
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