In this paper we provide a political game where agents decide whether to become legislators or politicians. Legislators determine the political institutions constraining politicians’ behavior and politicians compete for gaining the power to make decisions about the level of the public good. We derive the following results: i) Political competition is a necessary but not a sufficient condition f...

Active political participation from the citizenry is essential for a healthy democracy. However, research finds a significant sex gap in political participation, limiting the influence of a substantial group from the political system and democratic representation. This division by sex is further marked by the types of political activities in which males and females engage. Candidates, elected o...

today, on the one hand, the challenge of politicians shows their own distinctive face in order to outpace rivals; and on the other hand, for making an effort to attract maximum participation of people in the election, it has made the political marketing significantly more than ever. in this paper, the research method consists of descriptive-correlative performed by survey, which is intended to ...

1. Introduction Addressing the relationship between political order and development, Samuel Huntington (1968, p. 1) once stated, " the most important … distinction among countries concerns not their forms of government but their degree of government. " Events in Angola, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone and Zaire illustrate Huntington's point: Political order may not be sufficient, but, these cases sug...

In this paper I develop a model of political platform choice and subsequent policy implementation decisions by political candidates who are primarily motivated by career concerns. Although political platforms are non binding, politicians have some incentive to keep campaign promises in order to uphold their reputation. I analyze the electoral outcome and the determinants which influence the dec...

Budget forecasts are used by incumbent governments as a political tool to manage the elector particularly during an election cycle (Bruck and Stephan 2006). Incumbents apply budget forecasts strategically. They use short-term forecasts, which are more likely to be unbiased by political factors, annually. They rely on long-term forecasts, which are likely to be biased by political calculations, ...

The crisis of the euro area has severely tested the political authority of the European Union (EU). The crisis raises questions of normative legitimacy both because the EU is a normative order and because the construction of economic and monetary union (EMU) rested upon a theory that stressed the normative value of the depoliticization of money. However, this theory neglected the normative logi...

the writers of this article seek to investigate thedramaturgy of howard barker in his the castle, staged in 1985 by royalshakespeare theatre, in order to discover and lay bare the baroque techniquesof representation in this political paly. relying on deleuze’s idea of baroquearchitecture and foucault’s theories of baroque representation, the writers tryto introduce this play as the expression o...

Most studies of political blogging have focused exclusively on the so-called “A-list” political blogs. While these studies have provided important insights into the content of A-list political blogs (Adamic and Glance, 2005), how A-list political blogs influence media coverage (Drezner and Farrell, 2004) and who A-list political bloggers are (McKenna and Pole, 2004), they have largely ignored t...

The wars in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo were perpretrated by a radical nationalist Serbian cultural political consciousness that the American cultural political consciousness and leadership had difficulty responding to and understanding. There is a great cultural divide between a 'pathology' in Serbian culture, Milosević's radical nationalism, and a humane 'naivete' in American cultural consciou...