Identifying the source of incumbency advantage through an electoral reform
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Keywords
incumbency advantage; local politics; electoral reform;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D70 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - General
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- D78 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2015-04-19 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-POL-2015-04-19 (Positive Political Economics)
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