This research examines election financing in Indonesia by emphasizing the dimensions of revenue, expenditure, and management. The study employs qualitative methods based on observation and in-depth interviews, as well as secondary data such as Campaign Fund Reports, the General Election...

How do citizens hold local politicians accountable? I argue that citizens, especially through neighborhood associations, can use bloc voting as a grassroots strategy to pressure local politicians to provide public services. Politicians monitor precinct-level voting, and communities switch their...

NOTA option gives citizens of India the right to reject all the participating contestants in an election and voice their opinion of dissatisfaction with the contestants representing their constituencies. In this study, we gauged the impact of political reservations and competition on the NOTA...

Research on many important questions on taxation is impeded by a lack of cross-nationally comparable data. We introduce a new dataset that includes quantitative harmonized indices of tax reforms based on qualitative information of about 900 Economic Surveys from the OECD and 37,000 tax-related...

Blockchain applications are increasingly experimenting with novel governance mechanisms that address issues that are important for their community: resistance to voter fraud in the form a Sybil attack; resistance to the formation of a plutocracy within the community; and, the ability to express...

This paper examines the political factors associated with the implementation of a benefit payment policy in Japan during the COVID-19 crisis. The Japanese government announced a universal cash payment program in April 2020, but payment time differed across localities. This paper estimates the...

We consider a sender who wishes to persuade multiple receivers to vote in favor of a proposal and sends them correlated messages that are conditional on the true state of the world. The receivers share a common prior, wish to implement the outcome that matches the true state and have homogeneous...

We examine ballot order effects in independent director elections. Our results show that down-ballot directors receive considerably less opposition from shareholders. This result holds in a sample where directors are positioned alphabetically on the proxy ballot, and, thus unrelated to the...

With only a few exceptions, previous studies on terror attacks and election outcomes have focused on a particular country or attack, limiting their generalizability. Using data on the outcomes of 393 legislative elections held in 39 European countries during the period 1970-2017, we find limited...