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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"electoral incentives"”.
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The electoral incentives for ethnic violence : Hindu-Muslim riots in India
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1998.
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Brass cities : Innovation policy and local economic transformation
… industries. Three political obstacles short-term electoral incentives, industry capture, and barriers to collective action - have made the implementation of these policies difficult. Case studies of U.S. cities illustrate how state innovation policies have the potential to overcome these obstacles …
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Explaining the Strength of Legislative Committees: A Comparative Analysis
… committees' information capacity, institutional incentives granted to them to gather and transmit information. These distinct dimensions benefit different legislative actors. Therefore, they reflect different features of a political system, and may not be consistently strong or week.</p><p>Based …
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The Politics of Media Freedom
… often attack journalists. How can political and electoral incentives that are at the heart of democracy create a minefield for journalists? Examining cross-national patterns of censorship and the experiences of journalists in Venezuela, Mexico, and Brazil captured in over 4,600 case narratives, …
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Alliances and Preferences: Party System Institutionalization's Potentially Intervening Role on Pre-Election Cooperation in Australia, Fiji, and Papua New Guinea
… in determining the effect of electoral rules on the behavior of political parties. Highly institutionalized systems differ across multiple dimensions--supply stability, volatility of results, and rootedness of parties--from fluid systems. Party behavior can be depicted …
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Ballot box and tinder box : can electoral engineering save multiethnic democracy?
… is to systematize the existing hypotheses in the electoral engineering literature and to test them in a set of selected case studies in order to answer a central question: does the electoral system affect the structure of political parties in ethnically divided societies and if so how? The …
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Essays on political economy in Sub-Saharan Africa
… governments between 1995 and 2014 yields large electoral benefits for incumbent politicians. The causal effect of completion is identified from an instrumental variables strategy that exploits exogenous variation in the workload of project team leaders at the World Bank. Incumbents are rewarded …
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Africa's Unresponsive Democratization: the Relationship between Regime Type and the Quality of Life in Africa
… liberalization. Rather than institutionalizing electoral incentives to provide social services, leadership of exogenously derived democracies become principally accountable to the foreign actors for whom political change was meant to appease. However, foreign actors are effectively unable and …