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Gersbach, Hans - 1990

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Democracy and Regulation : The Effects of Electoral Competition on Infrastructure Investments

Schram, Arthur J. H. C. - 2013

This paper investigates infrastructure investment in markets where regulation is subject to varying degrees of manipulation by elected politicians. Based on a model of price regulation in a market with increasing demand and long-term returns on investment we construct a multi-period game between...

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Exposing Corruption : Can Electoral Competition Discipline Politicians?

Afridi, Farzana - 2016

political competition is too high or too low. We first build a simple game theoretic model to capture the effect of electoral … competition on corruption. We show that in equilibrium, corruption has a U-shaped relationship with electoral competition. If the … election is safe for the incumbent (low competition) or if it is extremely fragile (high competition) then corruption is higher …

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Manipulated Voters in Competitive Election Campaigns

Aköz, Kemal Kıvanç - 2015

We provide a game-theoretical model of manipulative election campaigns with two political candidates and a continuum of Bayesian voters. Voters are uncertain about candidate positions, which are exogenously given and lie on a unidimensional policy space. Candidates take unobservable, costly...

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A micro perspective on political competition : electoral availability in the European electorates

Wagner, Aiko - 2017

competition. As existing research conceptualizes political competition mainly as a macro- or party-level phenomenon, the micro … perspective remains underdeveloped and, therefore, an important dimension of political competition, the availability of votes, is … ignored. We introduce and discuss an individualized measure of electoral competition that is based on propensities to vote as …

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Electoral competition and political selection : an analysis of the activity of French deputies, 1958-2012

Gavoille, Nicolas; Verschelde, Marijn - In: European economic review : EER 92 (2017), pp. 180-195

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Does increased credibility of elections lead to higher political competition? : evidence from India

Chatterjee, Somdeep; Mookerjee, Mehreen; Ojha, Manini; … - In: European journal of political economy 77 (2023), pp. 1-18

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Signaling character in electoral competition

Kartik, Navin; McAfee, Randolph Preston - In: The American economic review 97 (2007) 3, pp. 852-870

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Revealing information in electoral competition

Felgenhauer, Mike - In: Public choice 153 (2012) 1/2, pp. 55-68

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Candidates, credibility, and re-election incentives

Van Weelden, Richard - In: The review of economic studies 80 (2013) 4, pp. 1622-1651

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