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The Median Voter Data Set : Voter Preferences across 50 Democracies from 1945

De Neve, Jan‐Emmanuel - 2009

The median voter, or the ideological position of the electoral center, has fi gured widely across literatures. This paper introduces a median voter data set that allows for comparison across time and across countries. The data set employs the statistics provided by the Comparative Manifesto...

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Inverse Campaigning

Konrad, Kai A. - 2021

It can be advantageous for an office motivated party A to spend effort to make it public that a group of voters will lose from party A's policy proposal. Such effort is called inverse campaigning. The inverse campaigning equilibria are described for the case where the two parties can...

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Reelection Threshold Contracts in Politics

Gersbach, Hans; Liessem, Verena - 2021

anonymous elections in democracies …

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On the Political Economy of Social Security and Public Education

Poutvaara, Panu - 2021

This paper analyzes simultaneous voting on the wage tax rate and investment in public education with three overlapping generations and productivity differences inside each cohort. Wage tax revenue finances public education and social security benefits. The presence of productivity differences...

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Competition of Politicians for Incentive Contracts and Elections

Gersbach, Hans - 2021

When politicians are short-term oriented or future elections do not sufficiently reflect the success of past policies …, democratic elections cannot motivate politicians to undertake long-term socially beneficial projects. When politicians can offer … incentive contracts which become effective upon reelection, the hierarchy of contracts and elections can alleviate such …

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A dynamic model of political party equilibrium : the evolution of ENP in Canada, 1870-2015

Ferris, John Stephen; Winer, Stanley L.; Olmstead, … - 2020

2015 first using an auto-regressive distributed lag (ARDL) model and then allowing for asymmetric adjustment by adapting NARDL panel estimation techniques. After finding evidence of asymmetry at the party level, the NARDL results uncover two new stylized facts for ENP at the national party...

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Moral hazard in electoral teams

Cox, Gary W.; Fiva, Jon H.; Smith, Daniel M.; … - 2020

How do parties motivate candidates to exert effort in closed-list elections? If each candidate’s primary goal is …

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Left behind voters, anti-elitism and popular will

Crutzen, Benoît; Sisak, Dana; Swank, Otto H. - 2020

Two common characteristics of populism are anti-elitism and favoring popular will over expertise. The recent successes of populists are often attributed to the common people, the majority of voters, being left behind by mainstream parties. This paper shows that the two characteristics of...

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Public funding of parties and political polarization

Köppl-Turyna, Monika - 2017

elections. The main results show that when a party faces a tight financial constraint, the platform chosen in equilibrium is …

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Exposing corruption : can electoral competition discipline politicians?

Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Solan, Eilon - 2016

In developing countries with weak institutions, there is implicitly a large reliance on elections to instill norms of … belonging to the state of Andhra Pradesh during 2006-10 and on elections to the village council headship in 2006. Our results … results suggest that over-reliance on elections to discipline politicians is misplaced. …

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