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Curbing Power or Progress? Governing with an Opposition Veto
Morgenstern, Albrecht - 2004
may cater to opposing special interests. The value of an opposition veto depends on whether electoral accountability can …, providing a new rationale for the frequent occurrence of "divided government". Without policy rivalry, an opposition veto fares …Veto institutions are often dominated by government opponents with rival electoral and policy interests (e.g. \divided …
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Divided We Reform? Evidence from US Welfare Policies
Bernecker, Andreas - 2014
Divided government is often thought of as causing legislative deadlock. I investigate the link between divided government and economic reforms using a novel data set on welfare reforms in US states between 1978 and 2010. Panel data regressions show that under divided government a US state is...
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Divided we reform? : evidence from US welfare policies
Bernecker, Andreas - 2014
Divided government is often thought of as causing legislative deadlock. I investigate the link between divided government and economic reforms using a novel data set on welfare reforms in US states between 1978 and 2010. Panel data regressions show that under divided government a US state is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229882
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Divided We Reform? Evidence from US Welfare Policies
Bernecker, Andreas - CESifo - 2014
Divided government is often thought of as causing legislative deadlock. I investigate the link between divided government and economic reforms using a novel data set on welfare reforms in US states between 1978 and 2010. Panel data regressions show that under divided government a US state is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734334
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Douglass North's Theory of Politics
Levi, Margaret - 2016
Few social scientists have equaled the impact on political science of Douglass C. North, co-winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1993. His extraordinary influence emanated from his ideas but was also a result of his vast social network of collaborators, students, and friendly...
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An Implementable Institutional Reform that Transfers Control of Government Spending Levels from Politicians to Voters
Graves, Philip E. - 2011
Elected representatives have little incentive to pursue the interests of those electing them once they are elected. This well-known principle-agent problem leads, in a variety of theories of government, to non-optimally large levels of government expenditure. An implication is that budgetary...
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Do Government Audits Reduce Corruption? Estimating the Impacts of Exposing Corrupt Politicians
Avis, Eric; Ferraz do Amaral, Claudio A.; Finan, … - 2016
Political corruption is considered a major impediment to economic development, and yet it remains pervasive throughout the world. This paper examines the extent to which government audits of public resources can reduce corruption by enhancing political and judiciary accountability. We do so in...
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Do government audits reduce corruption? : estimating the impacts of exposing corrupt politicians
Avis, Eric; Ferraz, Claudio; Finan, Frederico S. - 2016
Political corruption is considered a major impediment to economic development, and yet it remains pervasive throughout the world. This paper examines the extent to which government audits of public resources can reduce corruption by enhancing political and judiciary accountability. We do so in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507872
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Decentralization and Local Governments’ Performance: How Does Fiscal Autonomy Affect Spending Efficiency?
Boetti, Lorenzo; Piacenza, Massimiliano; Turati, Gilberto - Dipartimento di Scienze Economico-Sociali e … - 2010
In Italy, as in other countries around the world, recent reforms share the goal of increasing the fiscal autonomy of lower tiers of governments, from Regions to Municipalities, in order to align spending with funding responsibilities and increase the efficiency in the provision of essential...
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Resource Windfalls, Political Regimes, and Political Stability
Caselli, Francesco; Tesei, Andrea - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
We study theoretically and empirically whether natural resource windfalls affect political regimes. We document the following regularities. Natural resource windfalls have no effect on the political system when they occur in democracies. However, windfalls have significant political consequences...
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