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Divided We Reform? Evidence from US Welfare Policies

Bernecker, Andreas - CESifo - 2014

Divided government is often thought of as causing legislative deadlock. I investigate the link between divided government and economic reforms using a novel data set on welfare reforms in US states between 1978 and 2010. Panel data regressions show that under divided government a US state is...

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Gender and electoral incentives : evidence from crisis response

Chauvin, Juan Pablo; Tricaud, Clemence - 2022

paper uncovers the role of electoral incentives. Using a close election regression discontinuity design in Brazil, we first … political agency model where politicians seek re-election and where voters assess female and male politicians' actions … incentives and adapt their policy decisions to voters' expectations. …

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Divided we reform? : evidence from US welfare policies

Bernecker, Andreas - In: Journal of public economics 142 (2016), pp. 24-38

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Overcoming reform resistance and political implementation of large-scale welfare state reforms

Pitlik, Hans; Heinemann, Friedrich; Schweickert, Rainer - 2014

Long-term beneficial welfare state reforms not only face opposition from powerful insiders and beneficiaries of the system in place. While potential losers from a policy change are often relatively easy to spot, ewll-designed reforms generate mostly diffuse gains, and the potential winners are...

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The role of electoral incentives for policy innovation : evidence from the US welfare reform

Bernecker, Andreas; Boyer, Pierre C.; Gathmann, Christina - In: American economic journal 13 (2021) 2, pp. 26-57

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Political (self-)selection and competition : evidence from U.S. Congressional elections

Bose, Paul - 2021 - This version: October 2020

How does competition affect the entry and selection of politicians? I use data on U.S. Congressional primary and …

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Strike One to Educate One Hundred : Organized Crime, Political Selection and Politicians’ Ability

Daniele, Gianmarco - 2015

A central question in terms of political (self-)selection relates to the incentives leading high ability individuals to …-)selection. Identification derives from murders of local politicians by the mafia, and indicates that such a negative shock to politicians …' expected payoffs induces a strong decrease in first-time elected politicians' human capital. The effect is not limited to the …

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Vetoing and inaugurating policy like others do : evidence on spatial interactions in voter initiatives

Asatryan, Zareh; Havlik, Annika; Streif, Frank - 2015

A sizeable literature studies whether governments strategically interact with each other through policy-diffusion, learning, fiscal and yardstick competition. This paper asks whether, in the presence of direct democratic institutions, spatial interactions additionally result from voters' direct...

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Exposing Corruption : Can Electoral Competition Discipline Politicians?

Afridi, Farzana - 2016

results suggest that over-reliance on elections to discipline politicians is misplaced …

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'Good Politicians' : Experimental Evidence on Motivations for Political Candidacy and Government Performance

Gulzar, Saad; Khan, Muhammad Yasir - 2021

How can we motivate "good" politicians — those that will carry out policy that is responsive to citizens' preferences … political entry shape how politicians perform in office …

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