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Money talks to autocrats, bullets whistle to democrats: political influence under different regimes

Choon, Thea How; Marcolongo, Giovanna; Pinotti, Paolo - 2024

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Read my lips? : taxes and elections

Fuest, Clemens; Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas; … - In: Journal of public economics 236 (2024), pp. 1-12

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How elections matter : theory and evidence from environmental policy

List, John A.; Sturm, Daniel - 2006

This paper explores to what extent secondary policy issues are infuenced by electoral incentives. We develop a two dimensional political agency model in which a politician decides on both a frontline policy issue and a secondary policy issue. The model predicts when the incumbent should...

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Political selection and the concentration of political power : conference paper

Grunewald, Andreas; Hansen, Emanuel; Pönitzsch, Gert - 2014

This paper studies the effects of power-concentrating institutions on the quality of political selection, i.e., the voters' capacity to identify and empower competent politicians. In our model, candidates are privately informed about their abilities and are driven by office rents as well as...

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Electoral rules for mayors and incentives to pork-barrel : quasi-experimental evidence from German municipalities ; conference paper

Hessami, Zohal - 2014

This paper exploits a natural experiment in Hesse where a reform of the electoral rule from mayor appointment by the … state tier. This e ffect only materializes in the election year which suggests that mayors under the new electoral rule put … more e ffort into grant applications for highly visible infrastructure projects in order to increase their re-election …

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Understanding the election results in Portugal : a spatial econometrics point of view

Caleiro, António; Guerreiro, Gertrudes Saudés - 2003

cycles whether in their political versions or in their partisan versions. Given that the election results for the main … analyse the results corresponding to the last legislative election that took place in Portugal, from the partisan viewpoint … link between voters' ideology and the election results obtained by the two main parties in Portugal. …

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Economic policies and elections : a principal-agent point of view

Caleiro, António - 2004

One of the most crucial lessons to be taken from the literature on electoral business cycles is that the short- run electorally-induced fluctuations prejudice the long-run welfare. Since the very first studies on the matter, some authors offered suggestions as to what should be done against this...

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On some of the consequences of being possible to call early elections

Caleiro, António - 2005

This note presents some of the consequences due to the possibility of having early elections. First of all, elections, whether exogenously or endogenously determined, are relevant to challenge the well known neutrality principle of economic policies under rational expectations. Furthermore, in...

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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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Election campaigns, agenda setting and electoral outcomes

Holler, Manfred J.; Skott, Peter - 2004

Framing effects and bounded rationality imply that election campaigns may be an important determinant of election …

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