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Alesina, Alberto F.; Cukierman, Alex - 2021

Politicians have generally two motives: they wish to hold office as long as possible and wish to implement their …, politicians may prefer to be ambiguous and "hide", at least up to a certain extent, their true preferences. This result holds for …

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Mafia, elections and violence against politicians

Daniele, Gianmarco; Dipoppa, Gemma - 2016

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The Politics of Ambiguity

Alesina, Alberto - 1987

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Mafia, elections and violence against politicians

Daniele, Gianmarco; Dipoppa, Gemma - In: Journal of public economics 154 (2017), pp. 10-33

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Treated Politicians, Treated Voters : A Natural Experiment of Political Budget Cycles

Fukumoto, Kentaro; Horiuchi, Yusaku; Tanaka, Shoichiro - 2022

Although pre-electoral political manipulation of the budget --- the political budget cycle (PBC) --- has been long investigated by scholars, empirical findings are mixed at best. This is partly because of the non-random nature of election timing. There also exist ongoing debates over how the...

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Election results and oportunistic policies : A new test of the rational political business cycle model

Aidt, Toke Skovsgaard; Veiga, Francisco José; Veiga, … - 2011

The literature on the rational PBC suggests that politicians systematically manipulate economic and fiscal conditions … before elections to increase their chances of eelection. Most tests of this theory look for evidence of pre …

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