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Andersen, Asger L.; Dreyer Lassen, David; Holbøll … - 2010

The budget forms the legal basis of government spending. If a budget is not in place at the beginning of the fiscal … year, planning as well as current spending are jeopardized and government shutdown may result. This paper develops a … rather than positive; and when there is divided government. We test the hypotheses of the model using a unique data set of …

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Do the rich vote conservative because they are rich?

Lind, Jo Thori - 2006

Political economy models predict that the rich oppose redistribution, and hence vote for conservative parties. Although this seems to fit the data well, I show that this is not true when we control for unobservable characteristics. Using Norwegian survey data, I study to what extent voting is...

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Crime, incentives and political effort : a model and empirical application for India

Gehring, Kai; Kauffeldt, Florian; Vadlamannati, Krishna … - 2015 - This version: August 25, 2015

We develop a model of the incentives faced by members of parliament (MPs) when deciding whether to engage in effort for their constituencies to assess the effects of their having a criminal background. Political representatives with criminal backgrounds are considered a great problem in many...

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Crime, incentives and political effort : a model and empirical application for India

Gehring, Kai; Kauffeldt, Florian; Vadlamannati, Krishna … - 2015

The large share of politicians facing criminal accusations in India has sparked a public debate and an emerging literature that assesses its causes and effects. We develop a model of the incentives faced by members of parliament when deciding whether to engage in effort for their constituency to...

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Whither Political Economy? Theories, Facts and Issues

Merlo, Antonio - 2005

In this paper, I discuss recent developments in political economy. By focusing on the microeconomic side of the discipline, I present an overview of current research on four of the fundamental institutions of a political economy: voters, politicians, parties and governments. For each of these...

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The Origins of Public Choice and Virginia Political Economy : What Might Arthur Lovejoy Have Thought?

Wagner, Richard E. - 2015

Drawing inspiration from Ross Emmett's (2006) imaginative construction of what Frank Knight might have thought about the Stigler-Becker formulation of Die Gustibus, I ask what Arthur Lovejoy (1936) might have thought about the origin of public choice. He would surely have denied that public...

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How do voters respond to information on self-serving elite behaviour? : evidence from a randomized survey experiment in Tanzania

Kolstad, Ivar; Wiig, Arne - 2018

Does self-serving elite behaviour make citizens more politically active? This paper presents the results of a randomized field experiment where voters in Tanzania were given information about elite use of tax havens. Information provided in a neutral form had no effect on voting intentions....