An evolving political landscape: Political reform, boundary changes and the 2014 local elections

The 2009 Elections and Iran ’ s Changing Political Landscape

Iran’s June 2009 elections set into motion four processes that are central to the operations of the Islamic Republic regime. They include: the growing gap between large sections of Iranian society from the Islamic Republican state; the steady militarization of the political system; the unprecedented degree to which the Supreme Leader has become an active partisan in the increasingly bitter poli...

“The Political Economy of State Reform -- Political to the Core”

Only a professor of political science, indeed a specialist in theories of politics, would have the audacity to address a subject -state reform -on which he has intelligent opinions at most, and apply his views to state reform in a political system -Colombia -about which he appreciates only its broadest contours at best. Yet this is the task your National Planning Department has set for me, and ...

Political Competition in Legislative Elections∗

We develop a theory of candidate nomination processes predicated upon the notion that members of the majority party in a legislature collaboratively influence policy. Because of this team aspect, a candidate’s party label matters for voters, in addition to his own policy positions: For example, in a liberal district, electing even a liberal Republican may be unattractive for voters because it i...

Pension Reform and Political Risk

Philippine Political Parties, Electoral System and Political Reform