The Price of a Vote: Evidence from France, 1993-2014
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Keywords
Campaign expenditures; Campaign finance reform; Campaign financing; Elections; Multiparty electoral data;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- H72 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Budget and Expenditures
- P48 - Economic Systems - - Other Economic Systems - - - Political Economy; Legal Institutions; Property Rights; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Regional Studies
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2019-02-25 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-EUR-2019-02-25 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-POL-2019-02-25 (Positive Political Economics)
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