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Political competition, electoral participation and local fiscal performance
Development Studies Research, 2021 Existing literature argues that political competition and electoral participation influence government efficiency. However, empirical evidence on the matter for developing countries is scant and mixed.
Daniela Ariza Marín +2 more
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Competition, Politics, & Social Media
, 2020 An increasing number of politicians are relying on cheaper, easier to access technologies such as online social media platforms to communicate with their constituency. These platforms present a cheap and low-barrier channel of communication to politicians, potentially intensifying political competition by allowing many to enter political races. In this
Leung, Benson Tsz Kin, Yildirim, Pinar
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Media competition and electoral politics [PDF]
Journal of Public Economics, 2013 We build a framework linking competition in the media market to political participation. Media outlets report on the ability of candidates running for office and compete for audience through their choice of slant. Citizens consume news only if the expected utility of being informed about candidates' ability is sufficiently large for their group ...
Piolatto, Amedeo, Schuett, Florian
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Strategic spending in federal governments: theory and evidence from the US
Journal of Applied Economics, 2019 Past research on the allocation of federal resources to localities has failed to account for the interaction between federal and state governments.
Pablo J. Garofalo
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Modelling socio-political competition [PDF]
Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 2021 This paper continues the investigation of the logic of competing theories, be they scientific, social, political etc. We introduce a many-valued, multi-type modal language which we endow with relational semantics based on enriched reflexive graphs, inspired by Plo ica's representation of general lattices. We axiomatize the resulting many-valued, non-
Willem Conradie +4 more
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Utrecht Law ReviewThe European Union’s commitment to a social market economy requires balancing competition and social protection. This tension is particularly evident for digital labour platforms, where self-employed workers often find themselves in a precarious position.
Gabriël van Rosmalen
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Civic and Political Behavior in Mali: Constraints and Possibilities
Stability : International Journal of Security and Development, 2013 In spite of Mali’s international recognition as a beacon of good governance in the region, decades of free and fair elections and extensive civil liberties failed to engender public support for democracy following the March 2012 coup d’état ...
Jessica Gottlieb
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Formulating the Political-Theological Rules: The Systematic Nature of Political Competitions [PDF]
رهیافتهای سیاسی و بین المللی, 2019 The systematic nature of political competitions is regarded as one of the challenges of political systems, especially the religion-based political system.
Ali Aghajani
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Ideological versus Downsian political competition [PDF]
Social Choice and Welfare, 2002 We analyze a one-dimensional model of spatial political competition with two parties and uncertainty on the distribution of voters’ types. We assume that parties are formed by regular members and professional politicians; members care about the policy enacted, while professional politicians, on the contrary, care only about winning the election.
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Political Competition and the Limits of Political Compromise [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014 We consider an economy where competing political parties alternate in office. Due to rent-seeking motives, incumbents have an incentive to set public expenditures above the socially optimum level. Parties cannot commit to future policies, but they can forge a political compromise where each party curbs excessive spending when in office if it expects ...
Alexandre B. Cunha, Emanuel Ornelas
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