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Party governance and the selection of parliamentarians

Beniers, Klaas J. - 2005

This paper examines the incentives for a party leader in office and for a parties' rank-and-file to replace a sitting member of parliament. As to the leader's decision, we show that the leader prefers to replace a critical member of parliament who votes against the leader's policy. A competent...

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What to put on and that to keep off the table? A politician's choice of which issues to address

Sayag, Rei S.; Swank, Otto H. - 2012

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Candidates' quality and electoral participation : evidence from Italian municipal elections

De Benedetto, Marco Alberto; De Paola, Maria - 2014

politicians' quality is positively affected by their wage and apply a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design relying on the fact …

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Competitively Elected Women as Policy Makers

Hessami, Zohal - 2020

While still far from parity, female representation in politics has continuously increased over the last two decades worldwide. In light of this development, we analyze whether higher female representation has substantive effects on policy choices using the example of child care – a public good...

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Do Elections Always Motivate Incumbents? Experimentation vs. Career Concerns

Le Borgne, Eric - 2006

This paper studies a principal-agent model of the relationship between an incumbent officeholder and the electorate, where the officeholder is initially uninformed about her ability. If officeholder effort and ability interact in the production function that determines performance in office,...

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Conservative Politicians and Voting on Same-Sex Marriage

Kauder, Bjoern - 2017

We examine whether conservative politicians are less likely to support same-sex marriage when they run for office in … around 1.3 percentage points. We conjecture that politicians are election-motivated – even when submitting roll-call votes on …

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Politicians' Coherence and Government Debt

Bellettini, Giorgio - 2016

related to the incoherence cost that politicians pay when they renege on promised platforms. In this context, we suggest a …

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Electoral Ambiguity and Political Representation

Kartik, Navin - 2015

limits on discretion are desirable when politicians do not share the electorate's policy preferences. Optimal political …

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Manager or Professional Politician? Local Fiscal Autonomy and the Skills of Elected Officials

Bordignon, Massimo - 2020

-- following a tax decentralization reform increasing local fiscal autonomy -- politicians with high administrative skills are … officials in sub-national governments. We first develop a model of politics with different types of politicians and show that … elected in rich jurisdictions while politicians with high political skills are elected in poor ones. As a result, voter …

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Candidates' Quality and Electoral Participation : Evidence from Italian Municipal Elections

De Benedetto, Marco Alberto - 2014

politicians' quality is positively affected by their wage and apply a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design relying on the fact …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055228