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Candidate Positioning and Entry in a Political Competition
Games and Economic Behavior, 1993I first show that if there are more than two potential candidates in the Hotelling- Downs model of the simultaneous choice of positions by politicians then an equilibrium fails to exist in a wide range of situations. Subsequently I study a temporal model in which candidates are free to act whenever they wish.
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On the positive role of negative political campaigning [PDF]
, 2015 This paper studies the incentives of parties in political campaigns to disclose their true, intended policies to voters in a setting where these policies are exogenously given and where they are chosen strategically. Parties compete for the vote share that determines their political power or percentage of seats won in the election.
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Positive Politeness in Writing-Centre Consultations with an Emphasis on Praise
Language Matters, 2021Avasha Rambiritch, Adelia Carstens
exaly
2002
AbstractIn the last quarter century, the naïve simplification that the sole aim of governments was the welfare of citizens has been abandoned, and it is recognized that the government is a positive actor on the economic stage with its own interests. Positive political economy consists of attempts to explain economic policies, which require knowledge of
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AbstractIn the last quarter century, the naïve simplification that the sole aim of governments was the welfare of citizens has been abandoned, and it is recognized that the government is a positive actor on the economic stage with its own interests. Positive political economy consists of attempts to explain economic policies, which require knowledge of
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Positive politeness and mock politeness in Homer
English abstract: This article discusses the phrase ἀγαθός περ ἐών which occurs five times in Homer's Iliad (1. 131, 1. 275, 15. 185, 19. 155, and, in the dative, 24. 53). It argues that it is positively polite (in the terminology of Brown and Levinson 1987) in all five cases. It distinguishes between positive politeness and ‘internal verbal mismatch’,openaire +1 more source