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Political competition and economic performance : theory and evidence from the United States

Besley, Timothy; Persson, Torsten; Sturm, Daniel - 2006 - First draft June 2005, this version November 2005

We formulate a model to explain why the lack of political competition may stifle economic performance and use the … political competition have quantitatively important effects on state income growth, state policies, and quality of Governors. By … our bottom-line estimate, the increase in political competition triggered by the Voting Rights Act raised long-run per …

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Federal Preemption and Competition in the Post 1866 United States Telegraph Market

Honsowetz, Aaron - 2018

theory that the 1866 Post Roads Act contributed to increasing contestability and consumer welfare …

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Enlightenment Economics and the Framing of the U.S. Constitution

Lerner, Renee Lettow - 2013

Some scholars have argued that the Framers of the U.S. Constitution did not have a common set of views on economics, or that the Constitution, except perhaps in isolated clauses, does not reflect any specific economic views. The principal Framers did, in fact, share a basic set of economic...

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Effects of inter-group status on the pursuit of intra-group status

Chang, Jin Wook; Chow, Rosalin M.; Woolley, Anita Williams - In: Organizational behavior and human decision processes : … 139 (2017), pp. 1-17

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The idea of jurisdictional representation in a federation : a proposal and illustrations from recent Canadian and US elections

Ahsan, Syed M. - 2020

The idea of proportional representation has been circulating for over two hundred years and is widely practiced, among other, in post-war Europe. The primary focus is to allow smaller parties, minorities and other disenfranchised groups in society systematic representation in the national...

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