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Electoral Rules and the Emergence of New Issue Dimensions
Cantillon, Estelle - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2001
of party competition under proportional and plurality rule. Entry is allowed and incumbent parties act as Stackelberg … leaders vis-a-vis potential entrants. The analysis highlights the interaction between entry barriers and the type of emerging … issue in determining when and how a new issue will be introduced. The theory explains both internal (that is, without entry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196061
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The impact of ballot access restrictions on electoral competition: Evidence from a natural experiment
Drometer, Marcus; Rincke, Johannes - 2008
ballot access regulations cannot be treated as being exogenous to candidates' entry decisions. This paper exploits the 1968 U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294681
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The design of political institutions: Electoral competition and the choice of ballot access restrictions in the United States
Drometer, Marcus; Rincke, Johannes - 2008
induced by the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, our main finding is that restrictions to the entry of non-major party …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294683
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Politicians' Motivation, Political Culture, and Electoral Competition
Beniers, Klaas J.; Dur, Robert - 2004
We study electoral competition among politicians who are heterogeneous both in competence and in how much they care about (what they perceive as) the public interest relative to the private rents from being in office. We show that politicians may have stronger incentives to behave...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325215
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Political Competitiveness and Fiscal Structure: A Time Series Analysis. Canada, 1870 - 2015
Ferris, J Stephen; Winer, Stanley L. - 2018
We investigate the extent to which the intensity of political competition moderates the governance issues that arise in relation to Canada’s fiscal structure. By fiscal structure we mean three distinct but interrelated fiscal dimensions of the state: financial stability, long run size and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931970
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The design of political institutions: electoral competition and the choice of ballot access restrictions in the United States
Drometer, Marcus; Rincke, Johannes - 2008
by the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, our main finding is that restrictions to the entry of minor party and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264443
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Politicians' motivation, political culture, and electoral competition
Beniers, Klaas J.; Dur, Robert - 2004
We study electoral competition among politicians who are heterogeneous both in competence and in how much they care about (what they perceive as) the public interest relative to the private rents from being in office. We show that politicians? incentives to behave opportunistically increase with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275662
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The impact of ballot access restrictions on electoral competition: Evidence from a natural experiment
Drometer, Marcus; Rincke, Johannes - 2008
ballot access regulations cannot be treated as being exogenous to candidates' entry decisions. This paper exploits the 1968 U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427537
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Efficiency Consequences of Affirmative Action in Politics: Evidence from India
Das, Sabyasachi; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Saroy, Rajas - 2017
.e., restricting candidate entry in elections to one population group. We argue that when group identities are salient, such … restrictions on candidate entry need not necessarily reduce electoral competition. In fact, when group sizes are asymmetric …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786943
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Extreme parties and political rents
Aytimur, Refik Emre - 2013
We study the rent-seeking behaviour of political parties in a proportional representation system, where the final policy choice of the parliament is a weighted average of parties' policy positions, weights being their vote shares. We find that parties' policy preferences and their rent levels...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316021