Politics and Policy: Essays in Economics

This dissertation consists of three essays investigating questions of politics and policy. The first essay proposes an index that assigns probabilities to all majority coalitions. This index takes as inputs the seat shares and policy positions of the parties represented in parliament. In addition to...

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Main Author: Ganser, Tim
Other Authors: Shleifer, Andrei
Language:en_US
Published: Harvard University 2013
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Online Access:http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10407
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:10318187