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This paper follows the rational political budget cycle approach, ,extending it in two directions. First, it considers an open economy, to formalize the implications of political budget cycles for nominal exchange rates. ...

The author argues that the conjugation of certain democratic, socioeconomic and political factors has led to the "nationalization" of presidential elections in Brazil since 1960. The expansion of the electoral market res...

This paper argues that the conjugation of certain democratic, socioeconomic and political factors has led to the ?nationalization? of presidential elections in Brazil since 1960. The expansion of the electoral market res...

Vicente Fox’s victory in the 2000 federal elections meantthat the PAN could no longer postpone the task of transformingits own institutional life. The process of statutoryreform and the changeover in the PAN’s national...

Based on a methodological and theoretical approach put forward to study the links between culture and politics, this paper presents some cultural contents that influence both the proselytism practices used by the politic...

This paper deals with the political party system prevailing in the last years in Peru. It studies Fujimorism?s characteristics as a regime and form of government, the weakening in the conditions for political competition...

This paper examines the party system in Nicaragua in the light of the electoral processes that have been developing in the country since the defeat of the Sandinist revolution in the 1990 elections. Particularly, the wor...

Este trabajo presenta un modelo de elecciones con votantes heterogéneos e información asimétrica sobre el tipo de funcionario en que la señalización de los años electorales conducen a una convergencia de política....

This paper presents an analysis of the requirements specification in electronic voting systems. In particular, it poses a specification that assumes a physical distributed architecture model with two networked intelligen...

Abstract We develop a new index of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) based on newspaper coverage frequency. Several types of evidence—including human readings of 12,000 newspaper articles—indicate that our index prox...