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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 … has come to be known as economic voting. As shall be shown, Nannestad and Paldam were prescient in their early …

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Hold Your Nose and Vote; Why Do Some Democracies tolerate Corruption?

Pani, Marco - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

This paper analyses why corruption can persist for long periods in a democracy and inquires whether this can result from a well-informed rational choice of the citizens. By applying a citizen-candidate model of representative democracy, the paper analyzes how corruption distortsthe allocation of...

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Ghana; Economic Development in a Democratic Environment

Harnack, Joachim; Leite, Sérgio Pereira.; Fabrizio, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

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Modeling Politics with Economics tools; A Critical Survey of the Literature

Olters, Jan-Peter - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001

behaviour on the economy, it has not (yet) managed to fully develop a positively formulated "economic theory of politics" that …

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Do Elections Always Motivate Incumbents? Experimentation vs. Career Concerns

Lockwood, Ben; Borgne, Eric Le - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

effort so that performance becomes a more accurate signal of her ability. Elections reduce the experimentation effect, and … the reduction in this effect may more than offset the positive "career-concerns" effect of elections on effort. Moreover …, when this occurs, appointment of officeholders may Pareto-dominate elections. …

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The Discipline-Enhancing Role of Fiscal Institutions; Theory and Empirical Evidence

Debrun, Xavier; Kumar, Manmohan S. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

deficits. In light of the theory, empirical tests of the effectiveness of institutions are undertaken. The results further …

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Rethinking the Governance of the International Monetary Fund

Mirakhor, Abbas; Zaidi, Iqbal Mehdi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

of social institutions," and we use his theory of justice to provide a method for understanding what should be the case …, in the context of voice and voting shares, before international institutions, such as the IMF, are to be justifiable to …

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Ethnic Diversity, Democracy, and Corruption

Yehoue, Etienne B. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

I study the link between ethnic diversity, democracy, and corruption. In a static model, I show that contrary to conventional wisdom, corruption might emerge as a negative externality of democracy. This occurs through ethnicity, which appears as a rent-extracting technology in a democratic...

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Corruption, Competition, and Contracts; A Model of Vote Buying

Vardy, Felix J. J.; Morgan, John - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

In the presence of competing interest groups, this paper examines how the form of votebuying contracts affects policy outcomes. We study contracts contingent upon individual votes, policy outcomes, and/or vote shares. Voters either care about their individual votes, or about the policy outcome....

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Colonial Origins, Institutions and Economic Performance in the Caribbean; Guyana and Barbados

DaCosta, Michael - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

The countries that were once British colonies in the Caribbean share a common language and a colonial history of slavery, dominance of a plantation-based sugar industry, and broadly similar government and administrative traditions. Following independence in the late-1960s economic strategies and...

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