Leyla D Karakas
Biographic Data
| ID | 4386239 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leyla D Karakas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leyla D |
| FAMILY NAME | Karakas |
| SIGNATURE | KARAKAS L D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8824-8056 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Theory of Defiant Courts in Nondemocratic Regimes
Regimes that exhibit authoritarian features while still retaining some traditional democratic institutions are on the rise. Even though such regimes have eliminated important constraints on executive power, some still feature an occasionally defiant judiciary. We provide a novel explanation for this phenomenon by focusing on the judiciary’s role as a potential source of valuable information to the government about divisions among the regime’s eli…
Electoral competition in the presence of identity politics
This paper studies the effects of cultural identity on electoral and policy outcomes when voters are “behavioral.” Building on the evidence that voters assess political or economic events through the lens of their partisan identifications, we analyze an election between two office-motivated candidates in which voters over-reward or under-punish the candidate that shares their cultural identity. Focusing on issues with cultural as well as distribu…
Believers vs. deniers
Electoral competition in the presence of identity politics
This paper studies the effects of cultural identity on electoral and policy outcomes when voters are “behavioral.” Building on the evidence that voters assess political or economic events through the lens of their partisan identifications, we analyze an election between two office-motivated candidates in which voters over-reward or under-punish the candidate that shares their cultural identity. Focusing on issues with cultural as well as distribu…
Believers vs. deniers
A Theory of Defiant Courts in Nondemocratic Regimes
Regimes that exhibit authoritarian features while still retaining some traditional democratic institutions are on the rise. Even though such regimes have eliminated important constraints on executive power, some still feature an occasionally defiant judiciary. We provide a novel explanation for this phenomenon by focusing on the judiciary’s role as a potential source of valuable information to the government about divisions among the regime’s eli…
Electoral competition in the presence of identity politics
This paper studies the effects of cultural identity on electoral and policy outcomes when voters are “behavioral.” Building on the evidence that voters assess political or economic events through the lens of their partisan identifications, we analyze an election between two office-motivated candidates in which voters over-reward or under-punish the candidate that shares their cultural identity. Focusing on issues with cultural as well as distribu…
Economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Authoritarianism (1 work) · Climate change (1 work) · Climate Change Policy and Economics (1 work) · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (1 work)