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The economic approach to political borders

Spolaore, Enrico - 2022

This paper overviews theoretical and empirical contributions that study political borders from an economic perspective. It reviews theories of the number and size of nations focused on the trade-off between economies of scale in public-good provision and heterogeneity of preferences over public...

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The politics of public service reform : experimental evidence from Liberia

Sandholtz, Wayne Aaron - 2023

This paper provides experimental evidence on the electoral effect of a large education reform in a developing democracy. Despite significantly improving school quality, the policy reduced the incumbent party's presidential vote share by 3 percentage points (10%). This does not imply that voters...

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Redistribution, inequality and political participation : evidence from Mexico during the 2008 financial crisis

Justino, Patricia; Martorano, Bruno - 2016

political participation in Mexico. The results show that increases in the coverage of the programme during the 2008 financial … crisis resulted in greater individual participation in the last presidential elections and in higher individual propensity to … vote, particularly for the incumbent party. The programme was particularly effective in increasing political participation …

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Electoral accountability and political corruption

Ionescu, Luminita - In: Economics, management and financial markets 10 (2015) 3, pp. 63-68

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Partisan differenes in evaluations of the economy

Popescu, Gheorghe H. - In: Economics, management and financial markets 8 (2013) 1, pp. 130-135

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Natural disasters and electoral outcomes

Masiero, Giuliano; Santarossa, Michael - In: European journal of political economy 67 (2021), pp. 1-19

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Ideology without ideologists

Mechtenberg, Lydia (contributor) - 2007

Generally, Democrats do not increase military spending, and Republicans do not raise welfare payments. Mostly, ruling politicians stick to the manifesto of their party. The current paper provides a theoretical explanation for this phenomenon that does not assume politicians or voters to be...

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Voting on labour-market integration and education policy when citizens differ in mobility and ability

Haupt, Alexander; Übelmesser, Silke - 2009

We analyse how institutional and political decisions are intertwined. Citizens who differ in their mobility and ability vote first on labour market integration and afterwards on education policy. The institutional decision on integration influences the succeeding education policy. More...

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Non-partisan 'get-out-the-vote' efforts and policy outcomes

Kovenock J., Dan; Roberson, Brian - 2009

provide the social benefit of increasing participation in the electoral process, we find that they have a meaningful impact on …

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Political economics of higher education finance

Borck, Rainald; Wimbersky, Martin - 2009

We study voting over higher education finance in an economy with risk averse households who are heterogeneous in income. We compare four different systems and analyse voters' choices among them: a traditional subsidy scheme, a pure loan scheme, income contingent loans and graduate taxes. Using...

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