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Does female suffrage increase public support for government spending? : evidence from Swiss ballots
Hofer, Katharina E. - 2013
In this paper, I analyze the voting outcomes of two very similar Swiss referendum ballots concerning the federal governmentś competency to levy income, capital and turnover taxes to find out how the enfranchisement of women influences public support for government spending. The first ballot...
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Does female suffrage increase public support for government spending? : evidence from Swiss ballots ; conference paper
Hofer, Katharina E. - 2013 - Work in progress
experiment from Switzerland, I test this hypothesis empirically. I analyze the voting outcomes of two very similar referendum …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339969
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Decision-making institutions and voters' preferences for fiscal policies
Galletta, Sergio - 2018
This paper examines the effect of local political decision-making institutions (i.e., direct democracy vs …. representative democracy) on citizens' preferences toward public spending. Exogenous variation in institutions comes from a … democracy based on a legally stipulated population threshold in the Swiss canton (state) of Vaud. Fiscal policy preferences by …
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The UN Goldstone Report and retraction : an empirical investigation
Hillman, Arye L.; Potrafke, Niklas - 2014 - Revised February 2015
, based on the Chief-in-Executive measure of political institutions, a country with the highest democracy score was some 55 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487066
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The UN Goldstone Report and retraction : an empirical investigation
Hillman, Arye L.; Potrafke, Niklas - 2015
democracy score was some 55 percentage points less likely to vote in favor of the second of the two UN Goldstone resolutions and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488128
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Costs of change, political polarization, and re-election hurdles
Gersbach, Hans; Muller, Philippe; Tejada, Oriol - 2015 - This version: August 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409981
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The economic analysis of populism a selective review of the literature
Ocampo, Emilio - 2019
Although the application of the conceptual and analytical framework of economics to the study of populism is still in its infancy, great advances have been made in recent years. This paper reviews some key contributions behind this progress. When analyzing populism, economists face two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012009237
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Economic voting and economic revolutionizing? : the economics of incumbency changes in European democracies and revolutionary events in the Arab World
Möller, Marie - 2011
; Degree of Democracy ; Dictatorship … ; Abwahl ; Arabischer Frühling ; Demokratie ; Diktatur ; Neue politische Ökonomie …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009382370
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Co-voting democracy
Gersbach, Hans - 2016 - This version: August 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011542134
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The welfare economics of tactical voting in democracies : a partial identification equilibrium analysis
Demeze, Herman; Moyouwou, Issofa; Pongou, Roland - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011542864