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This paper assesses if voting for democracy affects long-term electoral participation. We study the effects of … participating in Chile's 1988 plebiscite, which determined whether democracy would be reinstated after a 15-year long military …
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We develop a model of elections in which parties choose their ideological position and the ideology of their candidates. Tighter candidate selection reduces policy uncertainty for voters. We show that weak institutional con- straints, as in a Presidential regime, induce parties to allow their...
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changes in an index of corruption perceptions between the current and the last elections. Our results suggest that corruption … system and the democratic experience are important determinants of the voters' reaction and control of corruption; while … voters in countries with parliamentary systems or with relatively low levels of democracy react negatively to an increase in …
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