Political Competition
The Content and Nature of Political Competition in Europe: Conceptualizing Political Space and Axis of Party Competition
... on political competition. Due to pervasive stabilization of political and economic regimes, leading to unprecedented levels of general affluence and increasing social ‘embourgeoisement,’ mobility and ...
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Extreme idealism and equilibrium in the Hotelling Downs model of political competition
... of political competition is the workhorse of political scientists and political ...many political races feature multiple candidates with distinct policy positions ...the ...
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Electoral rules, political competition and fiscal spending : regression discontinuity evidence from Brazilian municipalities
... in political competition for municipalities where the second round is ...the Political Science literature, we measure concentration both as the number of effective candidates as well as the share of ...
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Does Political Competition Matter for Economic Performance? Evidence from Sub national Data
... of political competition on state-level income and fiscal ...in political competition exerted a positive effect on state per capita ...that political competition measured in ...
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1. How political competition helps to force political parties and leaders to serve the people? Ans. The regular electoral competition provides
... a political party is motivated only by desire to be in power, even then it will be forced to serve the ...Similarly, political competition may cause division and some ugliness, but it finally helps ...
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Nation States vs United Empire: Effects of Political Competition on Economic Growth
... the political elites’ ability in ruling the unified ...of political unification in subsequent Chinese ...of political unification resulted into less political competition that could ...
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Political Competition, Electoral System and Corruption: the Italian case
... matters: political competition is a channel through which electoral system affects ...of political competitiveness among political parties is measured by the normalized Herfindahl index of ...
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Elite democracy: Political competition and voter opinion in the 2010 Australian Federal election
... rival political elites, but also a high level of normative consensus about how to conduct political competition, high levels of mutual access, and the ability of elites to influence policy outcomes ...
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Political competition, tax salience and accountability : theory and some evidence from Italy
... In this paper we suggest a possible alternative story: stronger political competition does not necessarily make politicians more accountable to voters, but instead may induce an opposite behaviour. We focus ...
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Voting with Your Feet: Political Competition and Internal Migration in the United States
... higher political competition, all else equal, will attract inward migration that leads to an increase in the size of the overall population in the more competitive ...of political competitiveness on ...
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Electoral rules, political competition and fiscal spending: regression discontinuity evidence from brazilian municipalities
... electoral competition. However, the effects of political competition on policy choices are not well understood ...from political competition to policy making can be elusive, as the two ...
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Political competition in hard times
... This paper analyzes a spatial model of political competition between two policy- motivated parties in hard times of crisis. Hard times are modeled in terms of policy- making costs carried by a newly elected ...
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The content and nature of political competition in Europe : conceptualizing political space and axis of party competition
... of competition 1 is the political pathway along which contending interests ...of political competition in political ...of political conflict over the political landscape ...
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Drivers of populism: economic insecurity or cultural backlash? From individual attitudes toward migration to the dynamics of political competition
... and political research fields (Guiso et ...national political scientists rate European parties on a range of positions, policies and salient ...their political agenda to economic left/right themes or ...
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Environmental consciousness, institutional factors, and political competition: an empirical analysis of Green party formation in 18 Western European countries
... and political nuances in the late 1960s and 1970s, involving the student revolution, the development of new social movements and the increasing concern about the environment with further implications in the ...
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Decentralizing the provision of public services in Bolivia: institutions, political competition and the effectiveness of local government
... Not surprisingly given this panorama, outsider’s views of the municipal council were unflattering. “The one who thinks on the municipal council is Edgar Robles,” said Lt.Col. Dávila. “The mayor is also clever. The rest ...
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Democracy, Political Competition and Public Debt
... We may concede that, while the right was at the helm, markets enjoyed a higher degree of freedom, but they were certainly far from playing the central role in run- ning the economy. Under the presumed explanation, the ...
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Political competition, party polarization, and government performance
... to political parties and politicians’ wage level (Svaleryd and Vlachos 2009), infant mortality (Svensson 2005), and various indicators of political corruption (Testa 2007; Brown ...party competition ...
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Preferences over public good, political delegation and leadership in tax competition
... political competition). So in stage 1, i.e. in the case of political competition, the median voter takes into consideration this result while deciding the political ...
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The Valuable Tool of Sovereignty: Its Use in Situations of Competition and Interdependence. Bruges Political Research Papers No. 3. 03/2007
... internal competition to sovereignty must be ...of competition between non-sovereign claimants of sovereignty out of which a single recognized sovereign ...internal competition may be ...internal ...
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