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Mass Media Competition, Political Competition, and Public Policy
The Review of Economic Studies, 2004Summary: If better informed voters receive favourable policies, then mass media will affect policy because mass media provide most of the information people use in voting. This paper models the incentives of the media to deliver news to different groups.
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1994
Government, by nature, is coercive. The fundamental transaction of government — the exchange of protection for tribute — makes government coercive because it must be in a position to forcibly deter aggressors in order to protect its citizens. Citizens want their governments to have the power to protect them, but this same power can be used against them
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Government, by nature, is coercive. The fundamental transaction of government — the exchange of protection for tribute — makes government coercive because it must be in a position to forcibly deter aggressors in order to protect its citizens. Citizens want their governments to have the power to protect them, but this same power can be used against them
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Endogenous political competition and political accountability
Economics Letters, 2009zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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Political competition and leadership in tax competition [PDF]
, 2011 In this paper, we introduce political competition in a sequential move tax competition game between two regions for foreign owned mobile capital. It shows that in case of sequential move, political delegation takes place only in the follower region, not in the leader region.
Rupayan Pal, Ajay Sharma
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Accountability and Political Competition
SSRN Electronic JournalIs increasing political competition good for voters? We study this question in the political career concerns framework. Our results show that the relationship between political competition, viewed as the cost of challenging incumbent politicians, and the politicians' incentive to behave in the voters' interest is undetermined.
Camargo, Braz, Degan, Arianna
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Competition in Political Markets
Economic Affairs, 1985The political ‘convergence theorem’ argues that, in countries where there are two main parties or coalitions, their policies tend to converge. In Economic Affairs, January‐March 1985, Professor Josef Molsberger traced the rise and fall of the social market in Germany.
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Political Competition in Federations
1998The focus of this work is the centrality of federal bargaining in the competitive political processes of democratic federations and of the necessity for fashioning institutions to channel and regulate that bargaining so that it is not disruptive of 'normal' policy-making.
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Regionalism and Political Competition
2015Although regionalism in France contributes to consolidating differentiated territorial narratives and allegiances, it is more difficult for it to establish a balance of political power with the central state. Unlike other European states, regionalist or ethno-regionalist parties — in other words those parties which identify with specific ethnic groups ...
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