Businessman Candidates: Special-Interest Politics in Weakly Institutionalized Environments
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- Sonin, Konstantin & Gehlbach, Scott, 2004. "Businessman Candidates: Special-Interest Politics in Weakly Institutionalized Environments," CEPR Discussion Papers 4822, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
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Keywords
Businessman candidates; elections; citizen candidates; institutions; political economy;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- P16 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Capitalist Institutions; Welfare State
- P26 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist and Transition Economies - - - Property Rights
- N40 - Economic History - - Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation - - - General, International, or Comparative
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2006-07-15 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-POL-2006-07-15 (Positive Political Economics)
- NEP-SOC-2006-07-15 (Social Norms and Social Capital)
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