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Comparative politics studies Marco Giuliani

Comparative politics studies Marco Giuliani. Discussion: Quentin Brunello. The implications of Institutionnal Design for Macroeconomics performance: Reassessing the claims of consensus democracy By Liam Anderson.

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Comparative politics studies Marco Giuliani

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  1. Comparative politics studies Marco Giuliani Discussion: Quentin Brunello

  2. The implications of Institutionnal Design for Macroeconomics performance: Reassessing the claims of consensus democracy By Liam Anderson

  3. Anderson criticized the conclusions of Lijphart witch defend the idea that consensus democracy benefits on economics performance ArendLijphart Liam Anderson

  4. Consensus Democracy (proportionnalrepresentation) core elements: - Proportionality - Effective number of parties - Cabinet durability - Coalition size

  5. Weaknesses of the paper: • Low numbers of observations on a short period of time • - Descriptive argumentation and no explanatory argumentation NOT SCIENTIFIC ENOUGH

  6. - Corporatism has a stong negative relationship with unemployment and inflaion rates -Strong negative relationship between Independance of the central bank and inflation rates

  7. Explication of why The independence of central bank and corporatism lead to macroeconomic performance BUT No explication of why the four core elements of consensus democracy lead to inferior economic performance No explication of why the central bank is independent and why there is more corporatism in a consensus democracy

  8. The Ideal model of Liam Anderson is: - Majoritarian political system - Corporatist system of interest inter mediate - ICB Problem: there is not a single country witch demonstrate this theory Why? Because we are missing « something more »

  9. CONCLUSION According to the definition of Tagapera this model is: Descriptive and not Explanatory

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