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Rethinking European Competition Law: From a Consumer Welfare to a Capability Approach
Utrecht Law Review, 2016 European competition law is predominantly focused on maximizing consumer welfare. This overarching purpose (which is supported by economic theory) leaves little place for safeguarding non-economic values, such as sustainability.
Rutger Claassen, Anna Gerbrandy
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The effect of political institutions on the size of government spending in European Union member states and Croatia [PDF]
Financial Theory and Practice, 2013 This paper presents an overview of theoretical and empirical research on the interaction between political institutions and economic variables. Using the dynamic panel model, the paper also investigates the indirect effects of electoral systems on the ...
Martina Basarac Sertic +1 more
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Political competition between differentiated candidates [PDF]
Games and Economic Behavior, 2009 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Stefan Krasa, Mattias Polborn
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Does Party Competition Affect Political Activism? [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020 Does party competition affect political activism? This paper studies the decision of party supporters to join political campaigns. We present a framework that incorporates supporters’ instrumental and expressive motives and illustrates that party competition can either increase or decrease party activism.
Hager, Anselm +3 more
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Why Merkel refused the post of Chairman of the CDU Party [PDF]
Научно-аналитический вестник Института Европы РАН, 2018 The article analyzes in detail the reasons that prompted Chancellor Merkel not to nominate her candidacy for the post of Chairman of the CDU party, which she headed for 18 years.
Ekaterina Timoshenkova
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Universalism and uniqueness in contemporary soft power strategies [PDF]
Przegląd Europejski, 2021 The author analyses the principles and regularities of the competition of soft power strategies of different states as an actual problem of comparative politics.
Vladimir G. Ivanov
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Comment gouverner une population invisible ?
Métropoles, 2014 One of the main objects of the literature on local government was the analysis of relationships between urban governments and social and economic groups.
Francesca Artioli
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Efficiency, Welfare, and Political Competition * [PDF]
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014 Abstract We study political competition in an environment in which voters have private information about their preferences. Our framework covers models of income taxation, public-goods provision, or publicly provided private goods. Politicians are vote-share maximizers.
Felix Bierbrauer, Pierre C. Boyer
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Investigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research, 2022 This paper presents evidence of the influence of political competition on the behavior of fiscal policy in Argentine provinces from 1987 to 2015. Contrary to the predominant theory and empirical evidence from subnational districts my estimations of a ...
Osvaldo Meloni
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Politics, Investor Protection and Competition [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007 External finance is critical for less established entrepreneurs, so poor investor protection can hinder competition. We model how lobbying by incumbents may reduce access to finance in countries where politicians are less accountable to voters. In a broad cross-section of countries and industries, we find that (i) the number of producers and entry ...
Perotti, E., Volpin, P.
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