analysis of populism draws concepts from other social sciences such political theory, sociology, history and social psychology. …

In this paper, I analyze the voting outcomes of two very similar Swiss referendum ballots concerning the federal …

experiment from Switzerland, I test this hypothesis empirically. I analyze the voting outcomes of two very similar referendum …

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 …

Direct democracy, the political process that enables citizens to draft, circulate, and enact laws, has become the … physician-assisted death throughout the country. This article examines the interplay between direct democracy and end … physician-aid-in-dying, is no less susceptible to the ravages of political wrangling than is representative democracy. The …

This paper presents a dynamic politico-economic theory of fiscal policy to explain the simultaneous existence of public …

One concern about direct democracy is that citizens may not be sufficiently competent to decide about complex policies … individual voting behavior, we develop a novel measure of proposition complexity (using official pre-referendum booklets) and … combine it with post-referendum survey data from Switzerland. Using Heckman selection estimations to account for endogenous …