Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/83359
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IES Working Paper No. 21/2011
Publisher: 
Charles University in Prague, Institute of Economic Studies (IES), Prague
Abstract: 
There is a wide range of theories that try to explain interactions between politics end economy that are referred as political cycles. Majority of these theories aims at analysis of changes in economic outcomes that are related to elections or other phenomena in the political reality. To induce at least some of these changes it is necessary to alter a country's legislation which leads to emergence of political legislation cycles - changes in legislation activity over time in an electoral term. The aim of this paper is to study political legislation cycle in the legislative system of the Czech Republic. Obtained results suggest that elections timing has an impact on legislation activity. As electoral term matures and upcoming elections are getting closer an increase is observed in the legislation activity.
Subjects: 
political business cycle
economic theory of legislation
voters
JEL: 
H61
H62
C49
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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