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Using mainly a quantitative and comparative approach, I examine the following issues:

• The political consequences of electoral laws: Institutional and sociological determinants of the number of parties that compete in a polity, strategic voting, partisan effects or biases of electoral systems, coordination problems in electoral systems.
• Political Behaviour: Economic voting and accountability in mass elections, religious voting, determinants and consequences of turnout.
• Issues in Political Economy: Tax morale, composition of public spending, budget structure.
• Political Parties: Nationalization of parties and party systems, impact of decentralization on the organization of parties.
• Sports & Society: The convergence of sports and society.

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