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The Usefulness of Corruptible Elections
Brandt, Loren; Turner, Matthew A. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2003
The belief that elections reduce rent seeking by government officials is widely held, likewise the belief that rent … seeking decreases as elections are less subject to corruption. In this paper we develop and test a model in which these … beliefs are carefully examined. Our model indicates that, while elections may provide a disincentive for rent seeking, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005827241
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It's the Media, Stupid - How Media Activity Shapes Public Spending
Bruns, Christian; Himmler, Oliver - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Politicians seeking reelection need voters to know what they have done for them. Thus, incentives may arise to spend more money where media coverage is higher. We present a simple model to explain the allocation of public spending across jurisdictions contingent on media activity. An incumbent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836898
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Micro evidence on inter-party vote movements in turkey: Who voted for AKP in 2002?
Baslevent, Cem; Akarca, Ali T. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Using data drawn from a survey conducted shortly after the 2002 elections, we investigate the Justice and Development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837024
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The Usefulness of Corruptible Elections
Brandt, Loren; Turner, Matthew - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2006
poorly conducted elections can have large incentive effects. That is, even corruptible elections provide leaders with strong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771721
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Too close for comfort? Politician - interest group relations under voters' supervision
Farvaque, Etienne; Lagadec, Gaël - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 2, pp. 1401-1410
This article analyzes the dynamics of electoral promises towards the population and interest groups, focusing on the reaction of voters to the proximity of a candidate to interests groups. In a two-period electoral competition model, we show that a (re)election seeking politician must consider...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008552162
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“One Man, One Dollar”? Examining the equalization argument in support of campaign contribution limits
Vanberg, Christoph - EconWPA - 2005
Arguably the most important campaign finance regulations in U.S. federal elections are limits imposed on the amount … negative relationship between a candidate’s reliance on large contributions and her electoral success. Using data on elections …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125869
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Does Campaign Finance imply Political Favors?
Claessens, Stijn; Feijen, Erik; Laeven, Luc - Tinbergen Institute - 2006
See 'Political Connections And Preferential Access To Finance: The Role Of Campaign Contributions' in <A HREF="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VBX-4P3DY39-4&_user=499884&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1004038141&_rerunOrigin=scholar.google&_acct=C000024499&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=499884&md5=d48c00bd293b73b16a75eb763ff75630"><I>Journal of Financial Economics</I>, 2008, 88(3), 554-580</A>.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042228
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The Usefulness of Corruptible Elections
Brandt, Loren; Turner, Matthew - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2003
The belief that elections reduce rent seeking by government officials is widely held, likewise the belief that rent … seeking decreases as elections are less subject to corruption. In this paper we develop and test a model in which these … beliefs are carefully examined. Our model indicates that, while elections may provide a disincentive for rent seeking, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005677735
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Incumbency Effects in German and British Elections: A Quasi- Experimental Approach
Hainmueller, Jens; Kern, Holger Lutz - EconWPA - 2005
incumbency in British and German post-World War II elections. The RDD framework exploits the randomized variation in incumbency … their observed vote shares, incumbents that barely won a race should be similar in their distribution of observed and … unobserved confounders to non-incumbents that barely lost. This provides us with a naturally occurring counterfactual exploitable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412454
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Platform stickiness in a spatial voting model
Lambertini, Luca - In: Economics Bulletin 4 (2007) 40, pp. 1-11
' platforms during elections. There emerges a non-linear relationship between these variable, whereby a party sticking to its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005416912