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How elections are impacted by production, economic growth and conflict

Hausken, Kjell; Ncube, Mthuli - In: International game theory review 18 (2016) 1, pp. 1-29

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Elections as a conflict processing mechanism

Przeworski, Adam; Rivero, Gonzalo; Xi, Tianyang - In: European journal of political economy 39 (2015), pp. 235-248

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Information on the ballot, voter satisfaction and election turnout

Sajons, Christoph - 2016

unknown and party-identification cannot be used to distinguish them. This case often appears in election systems with either … experimental exit-poll of voters at local elections in two German states in 2014 in which respondents faced a hypothetical election … translates directly into a greater willingness to take part in the hypothetical election (“turnout”), especially for individuals …

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On the synchronisation of elections : a differential games approach

Caleiro, António - 2006

The paper offers an analysis of the issues related to the election dates synchronisation between two countries. The … small economy, has incentives, or not, to synchronise the domestic election dates with the election dates (not necessarily … is to re-analyse the situation being studied by considering that the foreign government also determines its election …

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Vote buying or campaign promises? : electoral strategies when party credibility is limited

Hanusch, Marek; Keefer, Philip; Vlaicu, Razvan - 2016

What explains significant variation across countries in the use of vote buying instead of campaign promises to secure voter support? This paper explicitly models the tradeoff parties face between engaging in vote buying and making campaign promises, and explores the distributional consequences...

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Incumbent advantage, voter information and vote buying

Cruz, Cesi; Keefer, Philip; Labonne, Julien - 2016

Results from a new experiment shed light on the effects of voter information on vote buying and incumbent advantage. The treatment provided voters with information about a major spending program and the proposed allocations and promises of mayoral candidates just prior to municipal elections. It...

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Political motivations and electoral competition : equilibrium analysis and experimental evidence

Drouvelis, Michalis; Saporiti, Alejandro; Vriend, … - In: Games and economic behavior 83 (2014), pp. 86-115

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Electoral competition and endogenous political institutions : quasi-experimental evidence from Germany

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Lopes da Fonseca, Mariana - 2015

Do established parties change political institutions to disadvantage smaller, nonmainstream parties if the latters ́electoral prospects improve? We study this question with a natural experiment from the German federal state of Hesse. The experiment is the abolishment of an explicit electoral...

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Pandering and electoral competition

Gratton, Gabriele - In: Games and economic behavior 84 (2014), pp. 163-179

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Electoral competition and endogenous political institutions : quasi-experimental evidence from Germany ; conference paper

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Lopes da Fonseca, Mariana - 2014

Do established parties change political institutions to disadvantage smaller, non-mainstream parties if the latters' electoral prospects improve? We study this question with a natural experiment from the German federal State of Hesse. The experiment is the abolishment of an explicit electoral...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010484319