Essays on the political economy of nondemocratic practices
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation examines nondemocratic practices through the lens of political economics. Politicized courts are pivotal to guaranteeing the impunity of nondemocratic actions, and in Chapter 1 I start by documenting how the takeover of courts systematically affects the average citizen who uses courts to solve a dispute. I then proceed to studying campaign finance and its effects on legislative voting. In Chapter 2, I examine whether legislators change their votes based on the monetary influence of private interests. This would entail that legislators favor powerful interest groups while ignoring the constituents who voted them into office. Finally, in Chapter 3 I examine partisan redistricting and voter turnout. Also known as gerrymandering, partisan redistricting weakens voters' ability to elect their representatives by protecting incumbents and diluting the electoral strength of minorities.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2018; ©2018 |
| Publication date | 2018; 2018 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Sanchez Martinez, Carlos A |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Casey, Katherine Elizabeth |
| Degree supervisor | Shotts, Kenneth W |
| Thesis advisor | Casey, Katherine Elizabeth |
| Thesis advisor | Shotts, Kenneth W |
| Thesis advisor | Yurukoglu, Ali |
| Degree committee member | Yurukoglu, Ali |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Graduate School of Business. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Carlos A. Sanchez Martinez. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Graduate School of Business. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2018. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2018 by Carlos Adolfo Sanchez Martinez
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (CC BY).
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