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Japan's postal privatization battle: the continuing reverberations for the liberal democratic party of rebels-assassins conflicts / Carlson, Matthew

Carlson, Matthew	Journal Article
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2008.

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This article argues that the use of campaign finance regulations and electoral rules by political parties significantly shaped the results of the 2005 general election and the battle over postal privatization in Japan. How the Liberal Democratic Party responds to the reverberations of the conflict between the so-called "rebels" and "assassins" is likely to affect its electoral fortunes in the next lower house election

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Liberal Democratic Party ; Political Reform ; Japanese Politics ; 2005 election ; Campaign finance

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ID: 178070

Pathways of money: insights from the 2017 Gujarat assembly election / Kumar, Ashwani; Banerjee, Souradeep ; Dhar, Shashwat

Kumar, Ashwani	Journal Article
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A paucity of understanding of the pathways through which money flows during elections renders all discussion on campaign finance conjectural and unpersuasive. Drawing on qualitative evidence from two assembly constituencies in Gujarat, the paper seeks to understand the “opaque” and “enigmatic” ways in which parties and candidates mobilize campaign finance and the mechanisms through which money and other goodies get channeled into the electoral process. Further, the paper also attempts to compute realistic estimates of campaign expenses under critical campaign heads and highlights the ways in which candidates bypass official spending limits set by the Election Commission. The paper’s findings speak to some of the core themes in the burgeoning scholarship on electoral integrity and political economy of campaign finance in the world’s emerging democracies.

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Campaign finance ; Political Accountability ; Electoral Integrity ; Crime and Corruption

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ID: 086967

Political origins of the financial crisis: domestic and international politics of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac / Thompson, Helen

Thompson, Helen	Journal Article
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2009.

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For much of the last decade it was clear that the commercial operations of the government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were creating an increasing systemic financial risk. That risk was compounded by the fact that the Japanese and Chinese central banks were acting as cheap creditors. The Bush administration and some Republicans in Congress made efforts from 2001 to create a tougher regulatory framework for Fannie and Freddie. Fannie and Freddie were able to defeat these attempts to constrain their operations by a four-fold political strategy involving campaign contributions to members of Congress, a vast lobbying apparatus, the cultivation of a political language around affordable housing for minorities, and abusing and smearing their regulator. Since Japan and China understood that the US government would have to assume Fannie and Freddie's liabilities in a crisis they had no incentive to expose the political fiction that it would not.

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Housing ; Financial Crisis ; Regulation ; Campaign finance ; US Congress

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ID: 086974

Rebels without a cause? the Irish referendum on the Lisbon trea / Qvortrup, Matt

Qvortrup, Matt	Journal Article
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2009.

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The Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty follows a pattern of class-voting also seen in the 2005 referendums on the European Constitution. However, the poll differed in other respects. Polling in the wake of the vote suggested that the main reason given for voting no was a lack of knowledge about the treaty (22 per cent of no voters holding that view). A further 40 per cent of the voters voted no because they claimed not to understand the Treaty. This is in contrast to referendums in 2005 in Spain and the Netherlands where, respectively 70 and 51 per cent, of those with a self confessed 'very limited ' knowledge of the Constitution voted yes.

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Public Opinion ; EU ; Ireland ; Referendum ; Campaign finance ; Direct Democracy

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