Search Results - subject_exact:"Economic theory of democracy"

Lee, Dongil - 2026

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Co-voting democracy : dridging direct and representative democracy

Gersbach, Hans - 2026

We provide a rationale for Co-Voting, a decision-making procedure that blends elements of direct and representative democracy to mitigate their main inefficiencies. A randomly selected group of citizens receives voting rights on specific issues, with their collective decision aggregated with...

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Democratization, personal wealth of politicians and voting behavior

Machielsen, Bas - 2026

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Candidate exit and voter loyalty during early democratization

Dewan, Torun A.; Kam, Christopher; Meriläinen, Jaakko; … - 2026

Hirschman's Exit, Voice, and Loyalty (1970) proposed that organizations persist when loyalty tempers incentives to exit after adverse shocks. We test this argument using newly digitized individual-level voting records from 28 English constituencies (1832-1868), covering 134,000 real votes....

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Do elections moderate or polarize political rhetoric?

Boeri, Tito; Nikiforova, Nina; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2026

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Do elections moderate or polarize political rhetoric?

Boeri, Tito; Nikiforova, Nina; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2026

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Do elections moderate or polarize political rhetoric?

Boeri, Tito; Nikiforova, Nina; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2026 - This Version: March 17, 2026

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Do elections moderate or polarize political rhetoric?

Boeri, Tito; Nikiforova, Nina; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2026

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Voters' orientations towards democracy : a new conceptual framework

Boese-Schlosser, Vanessa; Meißner, Daniel; Ziblatt, Daniel - 2026

This paper proposes a conceptual framework for assessing individual democratic commitment and demonstrates its usefulness in the German context. Building on and bridging existing strands of research (e.g. on support for democracy, conceptualizations of democracy, evaluations of democracy), the...

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Political accountability and the returns to peace

Borbely, Daniel; Bühler, Mathias; Mueller, Joris M.; … - 2026

Why do some economies recover from armed conflict much better than others? We provide evidence that political accountability determines whether post-conflict societies realize the peace dividend. We study Cambodia, where a nationwide landmine clearance campaign created large local potential...

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The political economy of brain drain

Grigoriadis, Theocharis; Veselov, Dmitriy - 2026

This paper develops a political-economy game of skilled exit, redistribution, repression, and regime survival. Skilled workers are economically valuable because they become entrepreneurs, pay taxes, and generate productive externalities for low-skilled workers. They are also politically...

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Strategic voting on tax policy : direct vs representative democracy in the laboratory

Di Liddo, Giuseppe; Giuranno, Michele G.; Morone, Andrea - 2026

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Democracy as a competitive discovery process

Cowen, Nick; Schliesser, Eric; Trantidis, Aris - 2026

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Political competition, party structure and economic growth : theory and evidence from Indian states

Ferris, J. Stephen; Bhusana Dash, Bharatee - 2026

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Political competition, party structure and economic growth : theory and evidence from Indian states

Ferris, J. Stephen; Bhusana Dash, Bharatee - 2025

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Flexible representative democracy : an introduction with binary issues

Abramowitz, Ben; Mattei, Nicholas - 2025

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The politics of phasing out fossil fuels : party positions and voter reactions in Norway

Egli, Florian; Knecht, Nielja; Sigurdsson, Fride; … - 2025

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On pendular voting

Gersbach, Hans - 2025

"Pendular Voting" presents a novel two-stage voting procedure: A randomly chosen citizen group votes on a proposal replacing the status quo. Depending on the outcome, a "counterproposal" ensues, that is closer to/further away from the status quo than the original proposal. All citizens vote...

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On pendular voting

Gersbach, Hans - 2025

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Democracy in decline : the economic implications of democratic collapse

Boese-Schlosser, Vanessa; Eberhardt, Markus - 2025 - This version: April, 2025

Previous research has established a link between democratic governance and sustainable economic growth. Yet, over the past decade, we have witnessed a global decline of democratic institutions across a wide range of political contexts. How has this erosion of democracy affected countries'...

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Democracy in decline : the economic implications of democratic collapse

Boese-Schlosser, Vanessa; Eberhardt, Markus - 2025

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Analysis of the 2025 Bundestag elections : part 1 of 4 : Imperfection of the electoral reform

Tanguiane, Andranick S. - 2025

This is the first of four articles on the 2025 German federal elections, continuing our analysis of the 2009, 2013, 2017 and 2021 elections. We begin with the 2023/24 electoral reform, which aimed to curb the uncontrolled growth of the Bundestag caused by political developments not envisaged in...

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Analysis of the 2025 Bundestag elections : part 2 of 4 : Representativeness of the parties and the Bundestag

Tanguiane, Andranick S. - 2025

This is the second out of four papers on the 2025 German federal elections continuing our analysis of the 2009, 2013, 2017 and 2021 Bundestag elections. We estimate the policy representation ability of the 29 parties that participated in the 2025 elections and of the 2025 Bundestag. For this...

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Analysis of the 2025 Bundestag elections : part 3 of 4 : The third vote perspective Bundestag

Tanguiane, Andranick S. - 2025

This is the third out four papers on the 2025 German Bundestag elections continuing our analysis of the 2009, 2013, 2017 and 2021 elections. In particular, this paper contributes to the discussion of the imperfection of the German 2023/24 Electoral reform in [Tangian 2025a]. We show that policy...

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The determinants of political selection : a citizen-candidate model with valence signaling and incumbency advantage

Peralta, Susana; Van Ypersele, Tanguy - 2025

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Fiscal policy and politicians' term Length

Cipullo, Davide; Franzoni, Federico; Klarin, Jonas - 2025 - This version: October 7, 2025

This paper investigates the causal effect of the term length of political executives on economic policy outcomes. To establish causality, we exploit the staggered adoption of four-year terms for governors across US states, using data for the period 1937-2008. We find that increasing governors'...

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Fiscal policy and politicians' term length

Cipullo, Davide; Franzoni, Federico; Klarin, Jonas - 2025 - Version October 2025

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Voting over redistributive policy & the Joneses

Barnett, Richard C.; Bhattacharya, Joydeep; Bunzel, Helle - 2025

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Europe's super-rich : towards oligarchic constitutional order

Regilme, Salvador Santino F. <Jr.> - 2025

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Party factions and candidate selection

Bangum, Christine T.; Fiva, Jon H.; Invernizzi, Giovanna M. - 2025

We study how political parties share power internally by analyzing the allocation of list positions to different factions. We develop a theory of intraparty bargaining in which list positions shape the mobilization efforts of party activists in different factions. Our results allow us to link...

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Equitable voting with many alternatives

Kivinen, Steven - 2025

Voting procedures in many democracies satisfy a weak version of fairness called equity (Bartholdi et al., 2021) while violating the standard fairness criterion of anonymity. We study equitable voting procedures when there are more than two alternatives that can be ordered on a left-right...

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Recovering the original downs model of spatial party competition

Mellacher, Patrick - 2025 - This version: 11th of June 2025

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Economic distress, democratic quality, and satisfaction with democracy in Europe during COVID-19 : a multilevel approach

Cavusoglu, Tarkan; Pistoresi, Barbara; Poma, Erica - 2025

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Accountability in Markovian elections

Duggan, John; Forand, Jean Guillaume - 2025

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The political economy of (lacking) commitment to green policies

Delfgaauw, Josse; Swank, Otto H. - 2025

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Vote early and vote often? : detecting electoral fraud from the timing of 19th century elections

Ferlenga, Francesco; Knight, Brian G. - 2025

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The mixed local-proportional electoral system : balancing political interests and common good

Flis, Jarosław; Kaminski, Marek; Salamon, Jeremiasz - 2025

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The dynamics of political polarization and voting on economic issues : evidence from the Polish parliament, 2005-23

Lewkowicz, Jacek; Sękowski, Michał; Fałkowski, Jan - 2025

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Electoral dynamics and public primary education spending in a semi-democratic regime : Spain 1902-1922

Azar, Paola; Espuelas, Sergio - 2025

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Allocating communication time in electoral competition

Fournier, Gaëtan; Arnout, Alexandre - 2025

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Voter polarization and extremism

Eguia, Jon X.; Hu, Tai-Wei - 2025

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Partisan polarization in local politics

Benedictis-Kessner, Justin de; Einstein, Katherine Levine; … - 2025

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Emotional rhetoric and political competition under authoritarian regimes: evidence from brazilian congressional speeches

Corbi, Raphael Bottura; Funtowicz, Alan - 2025

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Replication of "Why voters who value democracy participate in democratic backsliding"

Freitag, Karolin; Kiemes, Laura; Wuttke, Alexander - 2025

This report documents our replication of Braley et al.'s (2023) study, which examined whether voters become less willing to subvert democratic norms upon learning that their political opponents are more committed to democracy than previously assumed. The original study found that correcting...

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Election methods and political polarization

Barbaro, Salvatore - 2025

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Direct democracy and political extremism

Schreiner, Nicolas; Stutzer, Alois - 2025

We study how citizens' right to directly decide on policies through popular initiatives affects the attractiveness of extreme candidates in representative elections. In our theoretical framework, single prominent policy issues on which individual voters hold extreme views get a large weight in...

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Synchronized elections strengthen party salience : evidence from a decentralized democracy

Balasubramaniam, Vimal; Bhatiya, Apurav Yash; Das, … - 2025

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Robust median voter rules

Kivinen, Steven; Tumennasan, Norovsambuu - 2025

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A dynamic cost of voting index : how do state election administration rules impact voter turnout and the integrity of elections?

Ferroni, Matteo F.; Milyo, Jeffrey - 2025

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The quiet payoff : mafia electoral support and policy inaction

Magli, Alessio Carrozzo; Righetto, Giovanni Margarido; … - 2025 - This version: December 2025

Organised crime groups often deliver electoral support to politicians, yet how they are rewarded remains unclear. Using data from Sicilian municipalities (1992-2022), we show that narrowly won races by Forza Italia, Silvio Berlusconi's party, coincide with sharp declines in the reallocation of...

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