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Turkish Voter Response to Government Incompetence and Corruption Related to the 1999 Earthquakes

Akarca, Ali T.; Tansel, Aysit - 2012

officials who permitted them. How voters responded to these in the 2002 parliamentary elections is investigated, using cross …

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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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Political budget cycles in European public procurement

Havlik, Annika - 2020

to national parliamentary elections. This effect is more pronounced for visible and labor-intensive projects and can be …

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Inequality, infrastructure, and institutions: Empirical studies in public economics and political economy

Dorn, Florian - 2021

Florian Dorn prepared this study during his doctoral studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich (LMU). The study was completed in September 2020 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics. This dissertation contributes to the empirics of public economics and...

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Reputation Shocks and Strategic Responses in Electoral Campaigns

Poblete Cazenave, Rubén - 2021

the release of information? Using Brazilian elections and audits as an exogenous source of information, I show that both … competitiveness of elections and, therefore, candidates' spending. Only information disclosed prior to electoral campaigns impacts …

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No Surprises, Please: Voting Costs and Electoral Turnout

Alipour, Jean-Victor; Lindlacher, Valentin - 2022

drop in turnout is only transitory as mail-in votes balance the decline in in-person votes in subsequent elections. This …-in ballots. Some inattentive voters forgo voting today but turn to mail-in voting in ensuing elections. Our results are in line …

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Love is blind: Partisan alignment and political corruption in Spain

Borrella Mas, Miguel Ángel; Rode, Martin - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 12 (2021) 3, pp. 423-451

elections. Findings show aligned municipalities to be more corrupt than non-aligned ones, an effect that is further associated …

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Redistributive Politics and Market Efficiency: An Experimental Study

Großer, Jens; Reuben, Ernesto - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

elections through which the poor majority can redistribute income away from the rich minority. In our simple laboratory … in two-candidate elections. In addition, in one of the treatments subjects can attempt to influence the candidates …

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Decentralization and Electoral Accountability: Incentives, Separation and Voter Welfare

Hindricks, Jean; Lockwood, Ben - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

public good spillovers or economies of scale, so that absent elections, voters are indifferent about the fiscal regime. The …

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Median Voter Preferences, Central Bank Independence and Conservatism

Lippi, Francesco - Banca d'Italia - 1999

This paper studies how the independence and conservatism of a central bank relate to the structure and stability of the median voter preferences. This is done by means of a model of endogenous delegation in which an opportunistic policy-maker chooses the monetary regime (independence and...

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