TY - BOOK AU - Buchler,Justin ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Hiring and firing public officials: rethinking the purpose of elections AV - JK1976 .B76 2011 U1 - 324.973 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Elections KW - United States KW - Voting KW - Competition KW - Political aspects KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-253) and index; Elections and the politics of threats -- What is electoral competition? -- Elections as employment mechanisms -- Market competition -- Electoral actors in the market and employment models -- Competitive elections in the market and employment models -- Competitive behavior and competitive elections -- Corruption and competition -- Policy implications of the market and employment models; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3054241 ER -