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When Authoritarian Regimes Provide Public Goods: Motivation and Capacity

open access: yesSocial Science Quarterly, Volume 107, Issue 4, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Objective This study investigates the conditions under which authoritarian regimes increase public goods provision. The research posits that authoritarian regimes are more likely to provide public goods when they possess both the motivation, stemming from the adoption of multiparty elections, and the capacity, which includes extractive ...
Da Sul Kim
wiley   +1 more source

The Voting Premium

open access: yesThe Journal of Finance, Volume 81, Issue 3, Page 1321-1375, June 2026.
ABSTRACT We develop a unified theory of blockholder governance and the voting premium in a setting without takeovers or controlling shareholders. A voting premium emerges when a minority blockholder can influence shareholder composition by accumulating votes and buying shares from dissenting shareholders.
DORON LEVIT, NADYA MALENKO, ERNST MAUG
wiley   +1 more source

Japan – U.S. Relations under the Abe Doctrine: Shifting Policy in East Asia Regional Stability

open access: yesJournal of International Studies, 2017
Reelection of Shinzo Abe as Prime Minister provides a favorable climate for both Donald Trump’s first presidential visit to Japan and an improvement of Chinese-Japanese-U.S. bilateral relations.
Hendra Manurung
doaj  

The Constitutionality of Legislative Supermajority Requirements: A Defense

open access: yesThe Yale Law Journal, 1995
On the first day of the 104th Congress, the House of Representatives adopted a rule that requires a three-fifths majority of those voting to pass an increase in income tax rates.' This three-fifths rule had been publicized during the 1994 congressional elections as part of the House Republicans' Contract with America.2 In a recent Open Letter to ...
John O. McGinnis, Michael B. Rappaport
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Supermajorities in Constitutional Courts

open access: yes
Constitutional adjudication is a subject of fascination for scholars. Judges may annul the will of a democratically elected Parliament in counter-majoritarian fashion. Although conceived as a remedy against majoritarianism, judges also decide cases by voting. Whether they do so through simple majorities or supermajorities is not trivial.
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Supermajority Voting Rules: Balancing Commitment and Flexibility. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
When optimal policymaking is subject to dynamic inconsistencies (Kydland and Prescott, 1977), but shocks hit the economy after private agents form expectations, there is a trade off between the need to commit to a policy, and the need to retain discretion so as to respond to shocks.
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The standardisation of uveitis nomenclature (SUN) project. [PDF]

open access: yesClin Exp Ophthalmol, 2022
Jabs DA   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Buying Supermajorities in the Lab

open access: yes, 2018
Many political decisions are taken in legislatures or committees and are subject to lobbying efforts. A seminal contribution to the vote-buying literature is the legislative lobbying model pioneered by Groseclose and Snyder (1996), which predicts that lobbies will optimally form supermajorities in many cases. Providing the first empirical assessment of
openaire   +1 more source

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