Electoral Competition, Political Uncertainty, and Policy Insulation

By Rui J. P. de Figueiredo. American Political Science Review, 2001

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Credibility, Complexity and Uncertainty: Explaining the Institutional Independence of 29 EU Agencies (2010, background): “An alternative explanation reflects the power-based logic of political competition and posits that the level of agencies' formal-institutional independence is dependent on the degree of ‘political uncertainty’ faced by politicians about how long they will survive in office: ‘If today's authoritative”
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