cycle manifests itself in election year tax cuts and savings on administration costs. Universal suffrage, where all adult … different suffrage regimes: taxpayer suffrage (1902-1914) and universal suffrage (1921-1937). We argue and find supporting … evidence that the political budget cycle operates differently under the two types of suffrage. Taxpayer suffrage, where the …

relationship between the franchise extension and the election results. We find little evidence of a connection between the two. New …

situations through the proxy analysis of election and the sovereign bond spreads. Our study leads to three main findings. First … over the possibility of government policies or instability brought by the election. During a crisis, however, investors …, results show that the election induced peak shrinks from 3 months before and after the election date to 1-2 months when the …

are there such big differences between and within the EU member countries? This paper investigates these problems by … analyzing the last four EP elections in the EU-13, for 156 regions. We first study the spatial features of turnout and …