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Do Individual Disclosure Rules for Parliamentarians Improve Government Effectiveness?

van Aaken, Anne - 2014

corruption, increased citizen trust in parliament, and better quality of law-making. Others argue that disclosure rules endanger … composition of parliament empirically. We find that the introduction of disclosure rules is usually not accompanied by a … significant shift in the proportion of lawyers and businesspeople in parliament (direct effect). In general, we did not find …

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Is Trade Policy for Sale? Congressional Voting on Recent Trade Bills

Baldwin, Robert E.; Magee, Christopher S. - 2021

This paper examines voting by members of Congress on three trade bills introduced in 1993 and 1994: the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the agreements concluded in the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations (GATT), and most-favored nation status for China. We first review...

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Judicial Lobbying : The Politics of Labor Law Constitutional Interpretation

Iaryczower, Matias; Spiller, Pablo T.; Tommasi, Mariano - 2021

This paper links the theory of interest groups influence over the legislature with that of congressional control over the judiciary. The resulting framework reconciles the theoretical literature of lobbying with the negative available evidence on the impact of lobbying over legislative outcomes,...

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Selection of public servants into politics : an economic analysis of its causes and consequences

Brändle, Thomas - 2013 - 1. Aufl.

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Omnibus or not : package bills and single-issue bills in a legislative bargaining game

Goertz, Johanna M. M. - In: Social choice and welfare 36 (2011) 3/4, pp. 547-563

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Judicial Lobbying : The Politics of Labor Law Constitutional Interpretation

Iaryczower, Matias - 2005

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Agendas in legislative decision-making

Horan, Sean - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 16 (2021) 1, pp. 235-274

Despite the wide variety of agendas used in legislative settings, the literature on sophisticated voting has focused on two formats, the so-called Euro-Latin and Anglo-American agendas. In the current paper, I introduce a broad class of agendas whose defining structural features,...

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Transparency in parliamentary voting

Benesch, Christine; Bütler, Monika; Hofer, Katharina E. - 2016

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Apportionment behind the veil of uncertainty

Wada, Junichiro - In: The Japanese economic review : the journal of the … 67 (2016) 3, pp. 348-360

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Rhetoric in legislative bargaining with asymmetric information

Chen, Ying; Eraslan, Hülya - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 9 (2014) 2, pp. 483-513

We analyze a three-player legislative bargaining game over an ideological and a distributive decision. Legislators are privately informed about their ideological intensities, i.e., the weight placed on the ideological decision relative to the weight placed on the distributive decision....

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