Preventive policy measures such as bailouts often pass parliament very narrowly. We present a model of asymmetric information between politicians and voters which rationalizes this narrow parliamentary outcome. A successful preventive policy impedes the verifi cation of its own necessity. When policy intervention is necessary but voters disagree ex-ante, individual politicians have an incentive...

We show how to use automated computation of election margins to assess the number of votes that would need to change in order to alter a parliamentary outcome for single-member preferential electorates. In the context of increasing automation of Australian electoral processes, and accusations of deliberate interference in elections in Europe and the USA, this work forms the basis of a rigorous ...

This paper assesses how parties strategically vary their populist positions in party competition. The useful conceptualization of populism as a matter degree has been established by previous studies. However, we know little about the conditions that drive to alter and, importantly, whether this varies between mainstream and parties. analyzes impact vote office loss on parties’ position-taking. ...

The aim of this paper is to analyse Constitutional Act 1/2020, which amends norms contained in Articles 56, 57 and 59 the Italian Constitution (about composition functioning Parliament), effects reform on constitutional system proposals parliamentary regulations order adapt these regulatory sources recent revision that reduced number members Parliament. In particular, it intended ascertain whet...

This paper analyzes the effects of parliamentary election cycles on the Turkish banking system. Using annual bank-level data representing all banks in Turkey during 1963–2005, we present evidence of meaningful differences in the structure of bank assets, liabilities and financial performance across different stages of the parliamentary election cycle. However, we find that government-owned bank...

Abstract Twitter is a prominent communication tool for politicians with two potential uses: as “substitute” channel to circumvent constraints from other political arenas, or an “amplifier” that reinforces party messages. Using novel dataset containing tweets and parliamentary speeches by members of parliament (MPs) in seven countries, we estimate politicians’ positions intra-party dissent on Eu...

The 2013 Parliamentary Hearing was held at United Nations Headquarters on 14 and 15 November. It was organized jointly by the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the President of the General Assembly, and the President of the Economic and Social Council, and brought together close to 200 parliamentarians from a range of countries to discuss the theme “Re-thinking sustainable development: the quest for a...

Preventive policy measures such as bailouts often pass parliament very narrowly. We present a model of asymmetric information between politicians and voters which rationalizes this narrow parliamentary outcome. A successful preventive policy impedes the verifi cation of its own necessity. When policy intervention is necessary but voters disagree ex-ante, individual politicians have an incentive...

Drawing on a database for 1988-2006 containing information on 157 countries, we investigate the effects on military spending of government form, electoral rules, concentration of parliamentary parties, and ideology. From an OLS regression on pooled data, our results show that presidential democracies spend more than parliamentary systems on defense, whereas the presence of a plurality voting sy...