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Party Discipline in Elections and Latent Policy Ideals

Cox, Christian; Shapiro, Ian - 2022

estimate a multi-stage election model that incorporates party discipline with election spending. First, we uncover the …

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Vote Buying and Redistribution

Guerra, Alice; Justesen, Mogens K. - 2021

Vote buying is a form of political clientelism involving pre-electoral transfers of money or material benefits from candidates to voters. Despite the presence of secret ballots, vote buying remains a pervasive during elections in developing countries. While prior literature has focused on how...

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Clientelism and governance

Bardhan, Pranab K. - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 152 (2022), pp. 1-6

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Strategic Voting Decisions in the Absence of Democratic Experience and Strong Party Ties : A Natural Experiment in the 1990 German Unification Elections

Leiter, Debra Lynn - 2010

democratic experience and strong party ties. Utilizing the 1990 German Unification Election Study, I examine a natural experiment …

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The Role of the Economy, Security and Party Leader Acceptance in Forecasting the 2020 General Election in Jamaica

Charles, Christopher; Dempster, Dalkeith; Welcome, Trevaun - 2021

Three econometric models were built to predict the 2020 General Election in Jamaica. These are the economics and … models show how the macro-economy, security concerns and party leader popularity influence election outcome, with similar … characteristics, meso-level patterns of relationships and macro-level institutions influence election outcomes within and across Latin …

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Party Discipline and Pork Barrel Politics

Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan - 2021

Polities differ in the extent to which political parties can pre-commit to carry out promised policy actions if they take power. Commitment problems may arise due to a divergence between the ex ante incentives facing national parties that seek to capture control of the legislature and the ex...

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Sequential Vote Buying

Chen, Ying - 2020

To enact a policy, a leader needs votes from committee members with heterogeneous opposition intensities. She sequentially offers transfers in exchange for votes. The transfers are either promises paid only if the policy is put to a vote or paid up front. With transfer promises, the leader buys...

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Partisan fertility and presidential elections

Dahl, Gordon B.; Lu, Runjing; Mullins, William - 2021

the surprise 2016 election of Trump to identify the effects of a shift in political power on one of the most consequential …

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Why did the electorate swing between parties during the Great Depression?

Fleck, Robert K. - In: Explorations in economic history : EEH 50 (2013) 4, pp. 599-619

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Strict Voter Identification Laws, Turnout, and Election Outcomes

Hoekstra, Mark - 2019

can affect voter turnout and election outcomes. We do so using historical data on more than 2,000 races in Florida and … small effect on turnout. Similarly, we also show under a range of conservative assumptions that very few election results … or critics were true, strict identification laws are unlikely to have a meaningful impact on turnout or election outcomes …

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