Similar Search Results

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 … participation and democracy in China, increased trust in government officials, and a more skeptical view of free markets. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877958

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

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

What Moves Political Ideology? An Economic Analysis of Electoral Volatility in France Since 1889

Facchini, François; Melki, Mickaël - CESifo - 2013

The theory of economic voting has extensively explored the influence of national economic conditions on votes for the incumbent party during elections. Such literature has never, however, explored the potential effects of economy on other types of voting swings in the sense of change in votes...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010634083

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

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

Econometric Estimates of Deterrence of the Death Penalty: Facts or Ideology?

Kirchgässner, Gebhard - CESifo - 2011

In 2007, the Wall Street Journal published an article claiming that each execution saves more than 70 lives. This example is used to show how easy it is, using simple or advanced econometric techniques, to produce results that do or do not support the deterrence hypothesis. Moreover, we also...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020796

The Right Look: Conservative Politicians Look Better and their Voters Reward it

Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2010

Previous research has established that good-looking political candidates win more votes. We extend this line of research by examining differences between parties on the left and on the right of the political spectrum. Our study combines data on personal votes in real elections with a web survey...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008833881

Incentive Effects of Fiscal Rules on the Finance Minister's Behaviour: Evidence from Revenue Projections in Swiss Cantons

Chatagny, Florian - CESifo - 2015

projection errors have a direct impact on fiscal deficits. In this paper, we explore the relationship between the ideology of the …-intuitive positive effect of the ideology of the finance minister on tax revenue projection errors in the sense that a more left …-wing finance minister produces relatively more conservative forecasts. We also find that fiscal rules reduce the effect of ideology …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185626

On the Political Economy of Complexity

Nitzan, Shmuel; Procaccia, Uriel; Tzur, Joseph - CESifo - 2013

A substantial number of regulatory frameworks are commonly viewed by impartial observers as inordinately complex. Is there an explanation for this phenomenon? Employing a partial equilibrium model, this paper approaches the problem of complexity from a political-economy vantage point. It...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877637