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Voting for voters: A model of electoral evolution

Barberà, Salvador; Maschler, Michael B.; Shalev, Jonathan - 1998

periods and holds elections at the beginning of each period; one vote is sufficient for admission, and voters can support as …

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The impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions: evidence from developing countries

Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2008

This paper analyzes the impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions in developing countries. In this study we treat …. We contribute to the existing literature by examining the effect of urbanization, taking into account the presence of …, middle, and low-income countries, additional demographic variables, namely, urbanization, demonstrate a very different impact …

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Endogenous informational lobbying

Austen-Smith, David - 1997

The focus of this paper is on individuals' decisions to seek access to influence a legislator's policy choice from a given binary agenda under uncertainty. In the model, influence is exclusively through the provision of information regarding the true state of the world, and money is used...

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Self-regulation and social welfare: The political economy of corporate environmentalism

Maxwell, John W.; Lyon, Thomas Peyton; Hackett, Steven … - 1998

We extend the economic theory of regulation to allow for strategic self-regulation that preempts political action. When political "entry" is costly for consumer, firms can deter it through voluntary restraints. Unlike standard entry models, deterrence is achieved by over-investing to raise the...

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Party formation and policy outcomes under different electoral systems

Morelli, Massimo - 1998

formation may occur before and after elections, and the expected payoffs from the after-election majority game affect incentives … to form parties before the elections. In this way Duverger's hypothesis can be formally explained by the strategic …

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Time inconsistency in environmental policy: Tax earmaking as a commitment solution

Marsiliani, Laura; Renström, Thomas I. - 1999

Tax earmarking imposes a constraint on government policymaking, and may be desirable if it solves a time-inconsistency problem in tax policy. In a two-period economy, in which the policy decisions regarding taxes, public goods provision, and pollution abatement are taken by a majority-elected...

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Agenda control in coalition formation

Bloch, Francis; Rottier, Stéphane - 2000

Theoretical models of government formation in political science usually assume that the head of state is non-strategic. In this paper, we analyse the power of an agenda setter who chooses the order in which players are recognised to form coalitions in simple games. We characterise those sets of...

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Inequality, environmental protection and growth

Marsiliani, Laura; Renström, T. I. - 2000

Why do Scandinavian countries perform better in terms of environmental protection than other European Union countries? In this paper, we explore the hypothesis that societies characterised by low-income inequality (such as the Nordic European countries) generate political-economic equilibria...

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Can green lobbies replace a world environmental organisation?

Conconi, Paola - 2000

We employ a common agency model to examine how green lobbies affect the determination of trade and environmental policy in two large countries that are linked through trade flows and transboundary pollution. We show that, when governments are not restricted in their ability to use trade...

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Self-regulation, taxation and public voluntary environmental agreements

Lyon, Thomas P.; Maxwell, John W. - 2000

An increasingly popular instrument for solving environmental problems is the "public voluntary agreement (VA)", in which government offers modest technical assistance and positive publicity to firms that reach certain environmental goals. Prior papers treat such agreements as a superior,...

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