This paper surveys four game-theoretic models of politics, to offer an introduction to the analysis of political institutions. The first two models focus on electoral competition, to show how successful candidates' equilibrium strategies may differ under different electoral systems. The other two models probe the consequences of legislative bargaining under different constitutional structures. ...

Historical interpretation of political dynamics in pre-conquest central Mexico from indigenous records is fraught with difficulties. Beyond the basic challenges involved in interpreting fragmentary evidence is the fact that the majority of evidence comes from the dominant imperial polity (Tenochtitlan) and paints a biased and overly generalized view of political and social dynamics in provincia...

Expertise has been a topic of fascination among cognitive psychologists for many years now. Numerous studies have explored expertise in 1981), and many other areas. In recent years, social psychologists have shown an increasing interest in expertise as well (e.. being learned by cognitive psychologists about the correlates and consequences of expertise in nonsocial domains are proving to be ver...

This paper exploits public announcements of corruption allegations amongst Nigerian political figures to estimate the impact of political connections on firm value. Specifically, I draw results from market reactions to 27 events to determine whether politically connected firms suffer more from financial malpractice amongst government officials. This paper finds heterogeneous impacts of corrupti...

Many events, for instance in sports, political events, and entertainment, happen all over the globe all the time. It is difficult and time consuming to notice all these events, even with the help of different news sites. We use tweets from Twitter to automatically extract information in order to understand hashtags of real-world events. In our paper, we focus on the topic identification of a ha...

2 Informed citizenship is taken as fundamental to democratic governance. Deliberation, political participation and holding elected officials accountable for their actions presuppose an electorate capable of expressing informed opinions. In modern democracies, the institution entrusted with delivering relatively costless access to public affairs information is the news media. In recent years, ho...

Political socialization is the process by which the transition of political cultures takes place from one generation to another.In the other words political socialization is continuous in whole of life, in which political personality of people is formed. Many factors affect people political socialization that some of them are; Family, Mass Media, School and Peer Groups. This research represents...

This paper is one of the rst to analyse political in uence on state-owned savings banks in a developed country with an established nancial market: Germany. Combining a large dataset with nancial and operating gures of all 457 German savings banks from 1994 to 2006 and information on over 1,250 local elections during this period we investigate the change in business behavior around elections. We...

This review paper articulates the relationship between prediction market data and event studies, with a special focus on applications in political economy. Event studies have been used to address a variety of political economy questions from the economic effects of party control of government to the importance of complex rules in congressional committees. However, the results of event studies a...