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Unemployment and Right-Wing Extremist Crime
Falk, Armin; Zweimüller, Josef - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …
Right-wing extremism is a serious problem in many societies. A prominent hypothesis states that unemployment plays a … fact a significant positive relation between unemployment and right-wing criminal activities. We show further that the big … difference in right-wing crime between East and West German states can mostly be attributed to differences in unemployment. This …
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Evaluating the Dynamic Employment Effects of Training Programs in East Germany Using Conditional Difference-in-Differences
Speckesser, Stefan; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Bergemann, Annette - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004
This paper evaluates the effects of Public Sponsored Training in East Germany in the context of reiterated treatments. Selection bias based on observed characteristics is corrected for by applying kernel matching based on the propensity score. We control for further selection and the presence of...
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Political corruption and voter turnout: mobilization or disaffection?
Costas-Pérez, Elena - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2014
Corruption may affect voter turnout either by mobilizing citizens to go to the polls or by promoting voter disaffection. Using Spanish local and survey data, we study whether these effects depend on partisan leanings or the timing of scandals. Our results show that repeated episodes of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010796121
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Does corruption erode trust in government? Evidence from a recent surge of local scandals in Spain
Solé-Ollé, Albert; Sorribas-Navarro, Pilar - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2014
We examine whether a corruption scandal in which the incumbent is implicated undermines trust in local government. We use a novel dataset containing information on local corruption scandals reported in Spain during the period 1999-2009, and data on the level of trust expressed in local...
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Bowling for fascism: social capital and the rise of the Nazi Party
Voigtländer, Nico; Voth, Hans-Joachim; Satyanath, Shanker - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2014
Social capital is often associated with desirable political and economic outcomes. This paper contributes to a growing literature on its "dark side". We examine the role of social capital in the downfall of democracy in interwar Germany. We analyze Nazi Party entry in a cross-section of cities,...
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God does not play dice, but people should: random selection in politics, science and society
Frey, Bruno S.; Steiner, Lasse - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2014
This paper discusses and proposes random selection as a component in decision-making in society. Random procedures have played a significant role in history, especially in classical Greece and the medieval city-states of Italy. We examine the important positive features of decisions by random...
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Is there an election cycle in public employment? Separating time effects from election year effects
Dahlberg, Matz; Mörk, Eva - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2011
Do governments increase public employment in election years? This paper answers this question by using data from Sweden and Finland, two countries that are similar in many respects but in which local elections are held at different points in time. These facts make it possible for us to separate...
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Tullock Challenges: happiness, revolutions and democracy
Frey, Bruno S. - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2011
Gordon Tullock has been one of the most important founders and contributors to Public Choice. Two innovations are typical “Tullock Challenges”. The first relates to method: the measurement of subjective well-being, or happiness. The second relates to digital social networks such as Facebook,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003653
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Plurality versus proportional electoral rule: which is most representative of voters?
Piolatto, Amedeo - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2009
This study compares the representativeness of voters in the proportional electoral system with the situation under plurality rule. Representativeness is commonly measured by comparing parties’ received votes with their shares of seats in the Parliament; this implies that proportional rule...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008579093
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The political economy of infrastructure construction: The Spanish “Parliamentary Roads” (1880-1914)
Curto-Grau, Marta; Herranz-Loncán, Alfonso; … - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2010
This paper examines the extent to which the public allocation of road investment was influenced by political and electoral goals during the Spanish Restoration (1874-1923). More precisely, we seek to identify those provinces that were favoured with higher road construction expenditure and...
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