The two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999, caused enormous amounts of death and destruction, and exposed rampant government corruption involving construction and zoning code violations, as a factor magnifying the disaster. The opposition parties and one of the incumbent...

This volume includes five self-contained chapters in the fields of public debt and fiscal transfer schemes. After an introduction to the topic, chapter 2 shows that the institutional setting of fiscal policy making needs to be considered when assessing the sustainability of fiscal policy. Using...

Die Wahlbeteiligung bei der Bundestagswahl 2013 lag in den ostdeutschen Bundesländern weiterhin deutlich hinter dem Beteiligungsergebnis für Westdeutschland. In diesem Beitrag werden mögliche Einflussfaktoren auf die Wahlpartizipation untersucht. Die Auswertungen der Allgemeinen Bevölkerungs...

We examine the legislative game with open rules proposed by Baron and Ferejohn (1989). We first show that the three-group equilibrium suggested by Baron and Ferejohn does not always obtain. Second, we characterize the set of stationary equilibria for simple and super majority rules. Such...