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Political selection and the concentration of political power

Grunewald, Andreas; Hansen, Emanuel; Pönitzsch, Gert - 2015

This paper studies the effects of power-concentrating institutions on the quality of political selection, i.e., the voters' capacity to identify and empower well-suited politicians. In our model, candidates are heterogeneous in two unobservable quality aspects: ability and public-spiritedness....

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Political advertising and election outcomes

Spenkuch, Jörg L.; Toniatti, David - 2016 - First Draft: February 2015, This Version: December 2015

regression discontinuity design with millions of observations suggests that advertising's impact on elections is largely due to …

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Corporate investment decisions under political uncertainty

Riem, Marina - 2016

when state elections occurred relative to the average investment ratio in years with no state election. Firms however seem …

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Competing cleavages in sub-Saharan Africa? : how economic distance affects ethnic bloc politics

Conroy-Krutz, Jeffrey - 2016

Does economic standing cross-cut ethnicity in African electoral politics? In many countries in the region, ethnicity appears to be a major consideration in individuals' political decision-making. However, there is significant variation in the extent to which coethnics support parties en bloc;...

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Political stabilization cycles in high inflation economies

Stein, Ernesto; Streb, Jorge M. - 1995

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Does political uncertainty influence firm owners' business perceptions?

Riem, Marina - 2016

firm owners are optimistic regarding their expected business development before state elections. After state elections … optimistic prior to state elections because politicians promised individual policies to gratify the firms' needs during election … times. Firms might be disappointed after elections as the promises made during election campaigns by politicians turn out to …

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Elections and the timing of devaluations

Stein, Ernesto; Streb, Jorge M. - 1999

economies, previous political cycle models had overlooked the influence of elections on the behavior of exchange rates. Voter …

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Who runs? : honesty and self-selection into politics

Fehrler, Sebastian; Fischbacher, Urs; Schneider, Maik T. - 2016

We examine the incentives to self-select into politics and how they depend on the transparency of the entry process. To this end, we set up a two-stage political competition model and test its key mechanisms in the lab. At the entry stage, potential candidates compete in a contest to become...

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Costs of change, political polarization, and re-election hurdles

Gersbach, Hans; Muller, Philippe; Tejada, Oriol - 2015 - This version: August 2015

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Mass media, instrumental information, and electoral accountability

Bruns, Christian; Himmler, Oliver - 2016

Journalism is widely believed to be crucial for holding elected officials accountable. At the same time economic theory has a hard time providing an instrumental explanation for the existence of "accountability journalism". According to the common Downsian reasoning, rational voters should not...

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