Political cycles of the Balkan region

The Balkan Political Culture – The Problem of Democratization

The Balkan political culture is the biggest problem in the democratization of South Eastern Europe. The basic characteristics of this culture, such as hostility, distrust, alienation and lack of consensus, are the main obstacles to democratization in this part of the world. The Balkan political culture was created as an expression of a specific development of the region through the history. Hig...

A theory of political cycles

We study how the proximity of elections affects policy choices in a model in which policymakers want to improve their reputation to increase their reelection chances. Policymakers’ equilibrium decisions depend on both their reputation and the proximity of the next election. Typically, incentives to influence election results are stronger closer to the election (for a given reputation level), as...

azerbaijans political development after the collapse of soviet union and implication on relation with the islamic republic of iran

در فصل اول این پایاین نامه در خصوص تاریخ کشور اذربایجان قبل و بعد از جدایی این کشور از ایران مورد بررسی قرار گرفته است ودر فصل دوم تحولات سیاسی این کشور بعد از 1991 و در واقع بعد از فروپاشی شوروی و دولتهایی که روی کار امدند در از جمله دولت ابولفضل ایلچی بیگ،دولت حیدر علی اف وبعد از او پسرش الهام علی اف و نگرش هرکدام از این دولتها به سیاسیت خارجی اذربایجان مورد اشاره قرار گرفته است.در ودر فصل سو...

12th EFLM Symposium for Balkan Region

Political Budget Cycles in the European Union

GREGOR JIŘÍ. 2016. Political Budget Cycles in the European Union. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 64(2): 595–601. This paper provides research on the theme of the political budget cycles. The goal is to fi nd out whether or not the government tries to manipulate the state budget and its components for the purpose of reelection across the countries of the ...