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Media proliferation and partisan selective exposure

Chan, Jimmy; Stone, Daniel - In: Public Choice 156 (2013) 3, pp. 467-490

The number of Internet news media outlets has skyrocketed in recent years. We analyze the effects of media proliferation on electoral outcomes assuming voters may choose news that is too partisan, from an informational perspective, i.e., engage in partisan selective exposure. We find that if...

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Candidates’ policy strategies in primary elections: does strategic voting by the primary electorate matter?

Adams, James; Merrill, Samuel - In: Public Choice 160 (2014) 1, pp. 7-24

facing two-stage elections beginning with a primary, and we compare candidates’ policy strategies in situations where primary … primary elections to select their candidates—a common dilemma for Latin American (and some European) parties. Copyright …

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Electoral misgovernance cycles: evidence from wildfires and tax evasion in Greece

Skouras, Spyros; Christodoulakis, Nicos - In: Public Choice 159 (2014) 3, pp. 533-559

We present detailed empirical evidence from Greece that around elections, misgovernance results in significant … intensify around elections: (i) attention and effort of elected officials is directed to campaigning instead of governing; and …

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Policy-seeking candidates who value the valence attributes of the winner

Adams, James; Merrill, Samuel - In: Public Choice 155 (2013) 1, pp. 139-161

Several recent spatial modeling studies incorporate valence issues—e.g., voters’ evaluations of the candidates’ competence, integrity, and charisma—that may give one of the candidates an electoral advantage that is independent of his policy positions. However to date all such models...

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The timing of elections in federations: a disciplining device against soft budget constraints?

Kaiser, Karolina; Taugourdeau, Emmanuelle - In: Public Choice 154 (2013) 3, pp. 197-215

We introduce political economics into the soft budget constraint problem by asking if the timing of elections has the … worse—with synchronized elections, i.e. simultaneous central and regional office terms, or with staggered elections, i ….e. terms of office that do not coincide. We find that staggered elections clearly improve fiscal discipline at the local level …

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The determinants of election to the United Nations Security Council

Dreher, Axel; Gould, Matthew; Rablen, Matthew; … - In: Public Choice 158 (2014) 1, pp. 51-83

candidates while the latter ratifies them. Using an original multiple discrete choice model to analyze a dataset of 180 elections …

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Inter-country differences in voter satisfaction with the democratic process: a study of world elections

Borooah, Vani; Katos, Anastasios; Katsouli, Eleni - In: Public Choice 157 (2013) 3, pp. 569-584

Using data from the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, this paper examines differences between West and East European countries in their levels of satisfaction with the way democracy works. Compared to East European countries, satisfaction levels were considerably higher in Western...

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Elections and the structure of taxation in developing countries

Ehrhart, Helene - In: Public Choice 156 (2013) 1, pp. 195-211

taxes). It thus represents an extension of traditional political budget-cycle analyses assessing the impact of elections on …">2010</CitationRef>) to predict the relationship between taxation structure and elections. Panel data from 56 developing countries over …

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The VP-function revisited: a survey of the literature on vote and popularity functions after over 40 years

Lewis-Beck, Michael; Stegmaier, Mary - In: Public Choice 157 (2013) 3, pp. 367-385

extremely influential review of the literature linking economics and elections, what they called the “VP functions.” In that …

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Policy persistence and rent extraction

Friedrich, Silke - In: Public Choice 157 (2013) 1, pp. 287-304

The existing literature has shown that special interest groups can have both growth enhancing and growth retarding effects on an economy. In either case, it is always assumed that the nature of the special interest groups remains constant over time. The hypothesis of this paper is that a dynamic...

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