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Political tenure, term limits and corruption

Tsur, Yaʿaḳov - In: European journal of political economy 74 (2022), pp. 1-20

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Can resource windfalls reduce corruption? : the role of term limits

Raveh, Ohad; Tsur, Yaʿaḳov - In: Journal of environmental economics and management : … 122 (2023), pp. 1-23

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Fiscal policy and reelection in Brazilian municipalities

Sakurai, Sergio; Menezes-Filho, Naercio - In: Public Choice 137 (2008) 1, pp. 301-314

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Reelection or term limits? The short and the long run view of economic policy

Streb, Jorge - In: Estudios de Economia 26, 2 Year 1999, pp. 187-206

An incumbent's drive for reelection can lead to political budget cycles. The distortion cycles cause in economic policy … individual candidates, constitutional clauses that prohibit the reelection of the president eliminate political budget cycles …. One-term limits that allow non-immediate reelection also shift the focus from short-run cycles to the long-run soundness …

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Budget structure and reelection prospects: Empirical evidence from French local elections

Cassette, Aurélie; Farvaque, Etienne; Héricourt, Jérôme - 2009

the reelection probability and the share of votes. It is shown that the budget structure, and notably equipment …

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It's the occupation, stupid! Explaining candidates' success in low-information local elections

Mechtel, Mario - 2011

We analyze the effects of personal characteristics of 4239 political candidates on their performance in local elections in Germany. Our results show that a candidate's occupation plays a decisive role. Occupational effects can be explained by (a) an occupation's public reputation and (b) public...

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Disentangling the effects of political fragmentation on voter turnout: the Flemish municipal elections

Geys, Benny; Heyndels, Bruno - 2006

Political fragmentation has been shown to be an important determinant of electoral turnout. We introduce an empirical approach that allows disentangling the impact of two dimensions of such fragmentation: the number of parties and the size inequalities between those parties. This is important as...

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Are Voters Rationally Ignorant? An Empirical Study for Portuguese Local Elections

da Silva Costa, José; Silva, Ester Gomes - 2004

The application of the rational choice postulate to a political context invariably leads to the conclusion that most voters are ill informed when making the decision for whom to vote. In this paper, the authors do an empirical evaluation of the rational ignorance theory, based on the results of...

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Political business cycles in local Indonesia

Suharnoko Sjahrir, Bambang; Kis-Katos, Krisztina; … - 2013

) only for direct elections, not for indirect elections. These cycles are much larger if the incumbent runs for reelection …

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