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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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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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Vote buying or campaign promises? : electoral strategies when party credibility is limited

Hanusch, Marek; Keefer, Philip; Vlaicu, Razvan - 2016

What explains significant variation across countries in the use of vote buying instead of campaign promises to secure voter support? This paper explicitly models the tradeoff parties face between engaging in vote buying and making campaign promises, and explores the distributional consequences...

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Incumbent advantage, voter information and vote buying

Cruz, Cesi; Keefer, Philip; Labonne, Julien - 2016

Results from a new experiment shed light on the effects of voter information on vote buying and incumbent advantage. The treatment provided voters with information about a major spending program and the proposed allocations and promises of mayoral candidates just prior to municipal elections. It...

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Rethinking the political economy of decentralization : how elections and parties shape the provision of local public goods

Ponce Rodríguez, Raúl A.; Hankla, Charles R.; … - 2016

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Competing cleavages in sub-Saharan Africa? : how economic distance affects ethnic bloc politics

Conroy-Krutz, Jeffrey - 2016

Does economic standing cross-cut ethnicity in African electoral politics? In many countries in the region, ethnicity appears to be a major consideration in individuals' political decision-making. However, there is significant variation in the extent to which coethnics support parties en bloc;...