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When’s the Party (or Coalition)? Agenda-Setting in a Highly Fragmented, Decentralized Legislature

open access: yesJournal of Politics in Latin America, 2016
This paper examines committee behavior in Colombia to determine whether parties or coalitions exert agenda-setting powers despite the fact that the formal rules seemingly create little incentive for cooperation.
Mónica Pachón, Gregg B. Johnson
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Veto Players, Fickle Institutions and Low-Quality Policies: The Policymaking Process in Ecuador [PDF]

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This paper seeks to understand why political actors, institutions and legal reforms have systematically failed to produce cooperation in the Ecuadorian policymaking process.
Andrés Mejía Acosta   +3 more
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The role of electoral and party systems in the development of fiscal institutions in the Central and Eastern European countries [PDF]

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The literature on fiscal institutions has established a connection between the design of fiscal institutions and a country’s political fundamentals.
Yläoutinen, Sami
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Stock market volatiltity around national elections [PDF]

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This paper investigates a sample of 27 OECD countries to test whether national elections induce higher stock market volatility. It is found that the country-specific component of index return variance can easily double during the week around an Election ...
Bialkowski, Jedrzej   +2 more
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Endogenous Public Policy and Long-Run Growth [PDF]

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. We study the determinants of voting outcomes on the provision of public consumption through marginal income taxes in the context of the simple linear growth model.
Christos Koulovatianos   +1 more
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Cyclical Fiscal Policy, Output Volatility, and Economic Growth [PDF]

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This paper provides a comprehensive empirical assessment of the relation between the cyclicality of fiscal policy, output volatility, and economic growth, using a large cross-section of 88 countries over the period 1960 to 2004.
Harald Badinger
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