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Political Competition and Ethnic Identification in Africa [PDF]
, 2010 This paper draws on data from over 35,000 respondents in twenty-two public opinion surveys in ten countries and finds strong evidence that ethnic identities in Africa are strengthened by exposure to political competition. In particular, for every month
Posner, Daniel N. +2 more
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Political Failures and Intergovernmental Competition [PDF]
Economics Research International, 2012 In normative public economics, intergovernmental competition is usually viewed as harmful. Although empirical support for this position does not abound, market integration has intensified competition among developed countries. In this paper we argue that when assessing welfare effects of intergovernmental competition for various forms of political ...
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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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