CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2012
| Author | Barta, Marton |
|---|---|
| Title | Janus-Faced Political Competition. Exploring the Effect of Political Competition on Economic Policy |
| Summary | The aim of this paper is threefold: first, it aims to build an integrated theoretical framework that is able to deal with both the ‘good’ (incentivizing) and the ‘bad’ (hampering) effect of political competition, from the perspective of economic reforms. Second, it aims to formulate the conditions of a political situation that is conducive to reform – I argue that reforms are possible if there is enough political competition, but there is not too much of it. Third, it also attempts to contribute to resolving an empirical puzzle: why it happened that the Hungarian government after 2010, even with unprecedented power and dominance, did not implement growth-enhancing economic reforms – though conventional wisdom concerning competition and reform would have predicted it? |
| Supervisor | Folsz, Attila |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2012/barta_marton.pdf |
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