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Lobbying of firms by voters
Dahm, Matthias; Dur, Robert A. J.; Glazer, Amihai - 2009
A firm may induce voters or elected politicians to support a policy it favors by suggesting that it is more likely to invest in a district whose voters or representatives support the policy. In equilibrium, no one vote may be decisive, and the policy may gain strong support though the majority...
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A model of optimising political expenditures to buy government power
Murphy, Austin - In: Economic and political studies : EPS 7 (2019) 4, pp. 433-453
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A simple model explaining the interaction between special interest spending and voter choices
Murphy, Austin - In: Journal of economics and political economy : JEPE 6 (2019) 3, pp. 201-226
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Is populism reversible? Evidence from Italian local elections during the pandemic
Bordignon, Massimo; Franzoni, Federico; Gamalerio, Matteo - 2023
We study the effect of economic insecurity on electoral outcomes using data on municipal elections in Italy. We …
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Is populism reversible? : evidence from Italian local elections during the pandemic
Bordignon, Massimo; Franzoni, Federico; Gamalerio, Matteo - 2023
We study the effect of economic insecurity on electoral outcomes using data on municipal elections in Italy. We …
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Political cycles of media repression
Schulze, Günther G.; Zakharov, Nikita - 2025
mitigate the risk of mass protests during autocratic elections-a common threat to their rule. Repression is deployed to … discipline the media before elections to secure favorable media coverage of the incumbent, thereby discourage public dissent. In … elections. We then demonstrate the disciplinary effects on reporting about incumbents using a novel media coverage index …
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The Mexican drug war : elections and homicides
García-Ramos, Aixa - 2022
Mexico has experienced a dramatic increase in violence during the last decade. This increase has been associated with turf wars among Drug Trafficking Organisations (DTOs) for the control of strategic territories. This paper examines whether these territorial disputes are higher during the lame...
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Female political representation and violence against women : evidence from Brazil
Delaporte, Magdalena; Pino, Francisco - 2022
Discontinuity design for close mayoral elections between female and male candidates in Brazil, we find that electing female mayors …
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Elections hinder firms' access to credit
Léon, Florian; Weill, Laurent - 2022
To analyze whether the occurrence of elections affects access to credit for firms, we perform an investigation using … firm-level data covering 44 developed and developing countries. The results show that elections impair access to credit …. Specifically, firms are more credit-constrained in election years and pre-election years as elections exacerbate political …
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Fair apportionment in the view of the Venice Commission's recommendation
Biró, Péter; Kóczy, László Á.; Sziklai, Balázs - 2013
In this paper we analyze the consequences of the fairness recommendation of the Venice Commission in allocating voting districts among larger administrative regions. This recommendation requires the size of any constituency not to differ from the average constituency size by more than a fixed...
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