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Party Hacks and True Believers : The Effect of Party Affiliation on Political Preferences
Gould, Eric D. - 2017
This paper examines the effect of party affiliation on an individual's political views. To do this, we exploit the party realignment that occurred in the U.S. due to abortion becoming a more prominent and highly partisan issue over time. We show that abortion was not a highly partisan issue in...
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Favoritism by the governing elite
Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Birkholz, Carlo; … - 2023
In this paper, we study the extent to which ministers engage in regional favoritism. We are the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of a larger set of the governing elite, not just focusing on the primary leader. We manually collect birthplaces of this governing elite globally. Combining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014316811
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Favoritism by the governing elite
Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Birkholz, Carlo; … - 2023
In this paper, we study the extent to which ministers engage in regional favoritism. We are the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of a larger set of the governing elite, not just focusing on the primary leader. We hand-collect birthplaces of this governing elite globally. Combining this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014441315
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Consolidation of new democracy, mass attitudes, and clientelism
Brender, Adi; Drazen, Allan - In: The American economic review 99 (2009) 2, pp. 304-309
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003854017
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Politics in Poor Places? Clientelism and Elections in Democracies
Golden, Miriam A. - 2020
We review a decade of literature on clientelism, a central topic in the study of developing democracies. We define … clientelism as the discretionary distribution of public resources by politicians. We distinguish clientelism that occurs in the … pre-electoral period (electoral clientelism) from that which occurs between elections (welfare clientelism). We provide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833840
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Inherent Quality or Nepotism? : Performance Analysis of Political Dynasties in a Democracy
Tantri, Prasanna L. - 2017
While persistence of political dynasties in a democracy has received attention, the performance of dynasts remains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972478
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Democracy, Credibility and Clientelism
Keefer, Philip; Vlaicu, Razvan - 2006
clientelism in politics is a source of significant policy distortion. However, in the long run reliance on patrons may undermine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014068913
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Statistical test for the mathematical theory of democracy
Tanguiane, Andranick S. - 2012
"Mathematical Theory of Democracy" by the author at the Faculty of Economics of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. One new … democracy ; statistical test ; parties ; coalitions ; representativeness ; Bernoulli matrices ; sums of random vectors … gut gelingt. Solche Versuche sind Gegenstand einer Vorlesungsreihe "Mathematische Theorie der Demokratie" des Autors an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009505438
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Does female suffrage increase public support for government spending? : evidence from Swiss ballots
Hofer, Katharina E. - 2013
In this paper, I analyze the voting outcomes of two very similar Swiss referendum ballots concerning the federal governmentś competency to levy income, capital and turnover taxes to find out how the enfranchisement of women influences public support for government spending. The first ballot...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010204664
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Does female suffrage increase public support for government spending? : evidence from Swiss ballots ; conference paper
Hofer, Katharina E. - 2013 - Work in progress
Does the enfranchisement of women lead to an increase in public support for government spending? By utilizing a natural experiment from Switzerland, I test this hypothesis empirically. I analyze the voting outcomes of two very similar referendum ballots concerning the federal government's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339969