However, the political actors' commitment to the electoral mechanism does not guarantee the well-being of the democratic regime. In newly established democracies, the electoral mechanism itself can also function as a disadvantage to democracy if it is manipulated by the political elite. Based on ...
I offer in this paper an alternative mechanism, the Idealized Electoral College (IEC), that may induce small shareholders to vote. The benefit of the IEC is that it significantly increases the likelihood that a given voter will affect the outcome of the election, thus increasing turnout. The ...
party's congress system is the fundamental system of inner-party democracy, by its very nature is a kind of participatory mechanisms within the party; improve the way the electoral system the party is to allow party members to exercise the right to participate; to protect the ...
Factor Endowments, Democracy and Trade Policy Divergence We develop a stochastic model of electoral competition in order to study the economic and political determinants of trade policy. We model a small open eco... S Galiani,N Schofield - Degit Conference Papers 被引量: 30发表: 2010年 Exponenti...
The Reformer's Dilemmas: The Politics of Public Sector Reform in Clientelistic Political Systems In clientelistic political systems, reforms to reduce corruption in the public sector are impeded by two central dilemmas. First, the politician's dilemma, or tradeoff between the electoral gains from ...
support democracy. We have operationalised all the six independent commissions provided for in our constitution which are the Anti-Corruption Commission, the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission, the Human Rights Commission, the Media Commission, the Gender Commission and the Electoral Commission....
doi:10.1080/14683849.2011.604560Gülz SütüSutcu G. (2011), Playing the game of democracy through the electoral mechanism: The Democratic Party experience in Turkey, "Turkish Studies", vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 341-356.
Therefore, when the voters suffer a loss from a natural disaster, the incumbent cuts his rents and provides more public goods as the electoral race tightens. By combining ``career-concerned'' incumbents with behavioral voters, the same model can explain both facts, whereas individually these ...
I offer in this paper an alternative mechanism, the Idealized Electoral College (IEC), that may induce small shareholders to vote. The benefit of the IEC is that it significantly increases the likelihood that a given voter will affect the outcome of the election, thus increasing turnout. The ...
Yet, lower electoral participation leads towards a less equitable distribution of income. Hence, this study reveals a self‐reinforcing mechanism where the unequal distribution of income leads to political exclusion, which in turn leads to more inequality....