Stadelmann, David; Portmann, Marco; Eichenberger, Reiner - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 41 (2013) 1, pp. 170-180
We analyze the effect of constituents’ preferences on legislators’ decisions within a quasi-experimental setting: In … the Swiss referendum process, constituents and legislators vote on policy proposals and thus reveal their preferences. We … match roll call votes of all legislators on 118 legislative proposals with revealed constituents’ preferences on exactly the …