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Election 2016 and the Structural Constitutions : How Little Is Changing

Gibson, Larry S. - 2016

Professor's Gibson's comment responds to some of the suggestions made by Professor Maxwell Stearns and observes that U.S. elections and the two-party system are shaped mainly by state law and not the U.S. Constitution, that candidates succeeding in national elections as “outsiders” are not a...

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Election 2016 and the Structural Constitution : A Preliminary Framing

Stearns, Maxwell L. - 2016

As part of Maryland Carey Law School's annual Constitution Day program, on the topic of “Election 2016 and the … historically tended toward a fairly stable right-left ideological divide embedding a two-party system, and how this election … caucus stage, and in the general election, the challenges to the mainstream candidates were not dominantly based on …

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Electoral Institutions, Political Competition and De Facto Judicial Independence

Yadav, Vineeta; Mukherjee, Bumba - 2014

The importance of the judiciary in consolidating and sustaining a robust democracy and, an attractive business environment has led scholars to study the conditions which allow judiciaries to function with genuine or de facto independence. One of the most influential theories in the current...

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The citizen-candidate model with imperfect policy control

Aytimur, R. Emre; Boukouras, Aristotelis; Schwagerz, Robert - 2015

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The citizen-candidate model with imperfect policy control

Aytimur, R. Emre; Boukouras, Aristotelis; Schwager, Robert - 2015

We present a modified citizen-candidate model where the implemented policy arises from a compromise between the government and an unelected external power. We show that the two-candidate equilibria of this model differ significantly from the original: however small the cost of candidacy, the...

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