Political Legislation Cycle in the Czech Republic

Josef Brechler and Adam Gersl

No 2011/21, Working Papers IES from Charles University Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Economic Studies

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.

Keywords: political business cycle; economic theory of legislation; voters (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C49 H61 H62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19pages
Date: 2011-07, Revised 2011-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cdm, nep-pol and nep-tra
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