The academic literature provides two competing hypotheses about the effect of economic
downturns on voter turnout: the 'mobilisation'hypothesis, according to which people go to the …

How do electoral incentives and institutional constraints vary as democracies consolidate?
Are incumbents more inclined to behave opportunistically during transitions, or when the …

There is growing research on the political budget cycles in transition economies whose
institutions, economies and societies differ significantly from those of developed countries …

Many have attributed the stalled democratization process in Tunisia to consensus politics
that failed to bring about significant reforms capable of improving the socioeconomic …

This paper uses a newly assembled dataset on various types of social protection spending
in 154 countries during the COVID‐19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021 to analyze the effect of …

We revisit work that has indicated that the presence and strength of political budget cycles
depend on a range of conditioning factors. We point to the importance of voter time …

We study taxation by autocratic rulers. Using a detailed dataset on government finances in
105 autocracies from 1950 to 2004, we find that despotic autocrats, who are defined as …

Using two large cross-national micro datasets on extortion and commodity flows, I provide
evidence of corruption cycles around elections in five West African states. In democracies …

This chapter reviews the literature on political budget cycles (PBCs), focusing on studies that
analyze the conditionality of opportunistic effects. First, factors that affect incentives of …

This paper analyzes how changes in political conditions affect distributive politics. We study
the case of Colombia, focusing on the strategic allocation of land in relation to the electoral …