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The Democratic-Republican presidential growth gap and the partisan balance of the state government
Cahan, Dodge; Potrafke, Niklas - 2017
Higher economic growth was generated during Democratic presidencies compared to Republican presidencies in the United States. The question is why. Blinder and Watson (2016) explain that the Democratic-Republican presidential growth gap (D-R growth gap) can hardly be attributed to the policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663552
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Dragnet-controls and government ideology
Potrafke, Niklas - 2019
, in turn, new populist parties that offer more polarized platforms. I investigate whether government ideology influences … government/party ideology influences individual policies, previous econometric studies ignored initiatives in parliament. My …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011963031
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Dragnet-controls and government ideology
Potrafke, Niklas - 2019
, in turn, new populist parties that offer more polarized platforms. I investigate whether government ideology influences … ideology-induced policies implemented by established parties. Dragnet- controls confine citizens’ liberties, but may help to … evaluating how government/party ideology influences individual policies, previous econometric studies ignored initiatives in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011956331
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Political awareness, microtargeting of voters, and negative electoral campaigning
Shipper, Burkhard C.; Hee Yeul Woo - 2014
, but candidates are not allowed to bluntly lie about their ideology. Every voter votes for the candidate she expects to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010255046
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Politician's Ideology and Campaign Contributions from Interest Groups
Choi, Sungmun - 2014
This paper studies the effect of a politician's ideological strength on campaign contributions that the politician receives from interest groups. If interest groups care mainly about current, or short-run, policy outcomes, they will make campaign contributions to ideologically neutral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057997
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Inferring the Ideological Affiliations of Political Committees Via Financial Contributions Networks
Chen, Yiran - 2017
pairwise difference in ideology groups' connection patterns satisfy a condition known as the Chernoff-Hellinger divergence … categorize the ideological affiliations of the political committees, our estimates match the self reported ideology for 94.36% of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012941159
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Inferring the ideological affiliations of political committees via financial contributions networks
Chen, Yiran; Fang, Hanming - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785392
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Inferring the Ideological Affiliations of Political Committees via Financial Contributions Networks
Chen, Yiran - 2017
pairwise difference in ideology groups' connection patterns satisfy a condition known as the Chernoff-Hellinger divergence … categorize the ideological affiliations of the political committees, our estimates match the self reported ideology for 94.36% of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453584
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The Program-to-Campaign Linkage : Party Organization and Ideological Inconsistency During Election Campaigns
Nasr, Mohamed - 2022
What determines party strategies in election campaigns? In this paper, I highlight a novel aspect to the party behavior literature pertaining to the connection between election programs and actual campaign statements issued by party elites in the media. I argue that party leaders might feel the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014241904
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Political parties, clientelism, and bureaucratic reform
Cruz, Cesi; Keefer, Philip - 2015
The challenge of public administration reform is well-known: politicians often have little interest in the efficient implementation of government policy. Using new data from 439 World Bank public sector reform loans in 109 countries, we demonstrate that such reforms are significantly less likely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011292966