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Author Buchler, Justin

Title Hiring and firing public officials : rethinking the purpose of elections / Justin Buchler
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 260 pages) : illustrations
Contents Elections and the politics of threats -- What is electoral competition? -- Elections as employment mechanisms -- Market competition -- Electoral actors in the market and employment models -- Competitive elections in the market and employment models -- Competitive behavior and competitive elections -- Corruption and competition -- Policy implications of the market and employment models
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-253) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Elections -- United States.
Voting -- United States
Competition -- Political aspects -- United States
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Elections.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
Elections
Voting
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199877294
0199877297