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Donor Ideology and Types of Foreign Aid
Brech, Viktor; Potrafke, Niklas - CESifo - 2013
We examine how donor government ideology influences the composition of foreign aid flows. We use data for 23 OECD …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877746
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Government Ideology and Tuition Fee Policy: Evidence from the German States
Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - CESifo - 2013
natural experiment, we examine how government ideology influenced the introduction of tuition fees. The results show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010640656
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The Size and Scope of Government in the US States: Does Party Ideology Matter?
Bjørnskov, Christian; Potrafke, Niklas - CESifo - 2013
We investigate empirically how party ideology influences size and scope of government as measured by the size of … differences in Democratic and Republican Party ideology. We distinguish between three types of divided government: overall divided … deregulating labor markets. We find that ideology-induced policies were counteracted under overall divided government and proposal …
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The Growth in Military Expenditure in Germany 1951-2011: Did Parties Matter?
Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - CESifo - 2015
We examine whether government ideology was correlated with the growth in military expenditure in Germany over the … period 1951-2011. By using various measures of government ideology, the results do not show any effect. The exception is an … ideology measure based on the Comparative Manifesto Project (Left-Right scale): using this measure, the results show that the …
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Precommitted Government Spending and Partisan Politics
Watkins, William; Bohn, Henning - CESifo - 2011
This paper analyzes government commitments to ongoing spending programs that require future outlays. Spending commitments are important for understanding partisan politics because they constrain future governments. In a model with one government good, a “stubborn liberal” policy maker can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020103
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Curriculum and Ideology
Cantoni, Davide; Chen, Yuyu; Yang, David Y.; Yuchtman, Noam - CESifo - 2014
reform in China that was rolled out between 2004 and 2010 with the explicit intention of shaping youths’ ideology. To measure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877958
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Elites or Masses? A Structural Model of Policy Divergence, Voter Sorting and Apparent Polarization in U.S. Presidential Elections, 1972-2008
Krasa, Stefan; Polborn, Mattias - CESifo - 2012
One of the most widely discussed phenomena in American politics today is the perceived increasing partisan divide that splits the U.S. electorate. A central contested question is whether this diagnosis is actually true, and if so, what is the underlying cause. We develop a model that relates the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651861
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Looking Back on Anger: Explaining the Social Origins of Left-Wing and Nationalist-Separatist Terrorism in Western Europe, 1970-2007
Brockhoff, Sarah; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - CESifo - 2012
A unique dataset is used to separately analyze the social origins of left-wing and nationalist-separatist terrorism in 17 Western European countries between 1970 and 2007. We argue that the differences in the historic roots, ultimate goals as well as their negotiability, levels of domestic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010544186
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Facts or Ideology: What Determines the Results of Econometric Estimates of the Deterrence Effect of Death Penalty? A Meta-Analysis
Gerritzen, Berit C.; Kirchgässner, Gebhard - CESifo - 2013
Provided that the literature on the deterrent effect of capital punishment is overall inconclusive, the fact that individual authors persistently claim to have found solid evidence in one or the other direction raises two questions. Firstly, what are the causes for these different results? Do...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010631770
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Social Ideology and Taxes in a Differentiated Candidates Framework
Krasa, Stefan; Polborn, Mattias - CESifo - 2011
How does ideological polarization on non-economic matters influence the size of government? We analyze this question using a differentiated candidates framework: Two office-motivated candidates differ in their (fixed) ideological position and their production function for public goods, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009144876