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The effect of elections on economic growth : results from a natural experiment in Indonesia

Moricz, Sara; Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2014

Does democracy increase economic growth? Previous literature tends to find a positive effect but does also suffer from …

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The Effects of Bureaucracy on Political Accountability and Electoral Selection

Yazaki, Yukihiro - 2016

This paper examines how bureaucracy affects political accountability and electoral selection, using a three …

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Do Voters Dislike Liberalizing Reforms? New Evidence Using Data on Satisfaction with Democracy

Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2018

reforms and even be less satisfied with democracy as such. We test this hypothesis empirically, using panel data from 30 … European countries in the period 1993–2015. The dependent variable is the average satisfaction with democracy, while the reform …. Our results indicate that while reforms of government size are not robustly related to satisfaction with democracy …

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Democracy and Economic Growth : Do Swing Voters Make a Difference?

Bhardwaj, Abhishek - 2017

the swing voters strengthen the positive association between democracy and growth …

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Disciplining ballots? : (un-intended) effects of voter engagement on the fiscal sustainability of Swiss cantons

Bury, Yannick; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2023

We test whether the proactive use of instruments of direct democracy by voters can help to explain fiscal …

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Economic voting and economic revolutionizing? : the economics of incumbency changes in European democracies and revolutionary events in the Arab World

Möller, Marie - 2011

; Degree of Democracy ; Dictatorship …

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Political support in hard times : do people care about national welfare?

Friedrichsen, Jana; Zahn, Philipp - 2013

During the Great Recession mass demonstrations indicated weakened political support in Europe. We show that growing dissatisfaction often reflects poor economic conditions and unemployment is particularly important. Using individual level data for 16 Western European countries for 1976-2010, we...

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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 United States as a testing ground for the model’s predictions, exploiting the 1965 Voting Rights Act which helped break the near monpoly on political power of the Democrats in...

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Political support in hard times : Do people care about national welfare?

Friedrichsen, Jana; Zahn, Philipp - 2012

During the Great Recession mass demonstrations indicated weakened political support in Europe. We show that growing dissatisfaction reflects poor economic conditions; unemployment is particularly important. Using individual level data for 16 Western European countries for 1976-2010, we find that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011489956

What determines preferences for an electoral system? : evidence from a binding referendum

Riambau, Guillem; Stillman, Steven; Boe-Gibson, Geua - 2017

Much has been written about politicians' preferences for electoral systems, yet little is known about the preferences of voters. In 1993, New Zealand had a binding electoral referendum on the same day as the general election where voters chose between keeping a single plurality system (First...

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