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Internet effect between national and local elections to a crowding out of national but not local newspapers. …
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We review the efficacy of three approaches to forecasting elections: econometric models that project outcomes on the …
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-tax policies that do not harm their relative chances in the elections. In the experiment, we find that lobbying is never successful …
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This paper investigates the consequences of immigration, crime and socio-economic depriviation for the performance of right-wing extremist and populist parties in the German city state of Hamburg between 1986 and 2005. The ecological determinants of voting for right-wing parties on the district...
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problem that economic outcomes also influence elections. We sidestep these problems by analyzing movements in economic …-Democrat differential was also observed for the 2000 Bush-Gore contest. Prediction market based analyses of all Presidential elections since …
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the immigrant share increases. Our results indicate that in the elections some Danish voters voice their displeasure about …
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-wing "Republikaner" party and the left-wing Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) in the two recent elections of the European Parliament in …
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elections through which the poor majority can redistribute income away from the rich minority. In our simple laboratory … democracy, subjects first earn their income by trading in a double auction market and thereafter vote on redistributive policies … in two-candidate elections. In addition, in one of the treatments subjects can attempt to influence the candidates …
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female and male candidates and how different candidate traits relate to success in real and hypothetical elections. We have … success in real elections better than evaluations of competence, intelligence, likability, or trustworthiness. The beauty …
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We present and test a theory of prospective and retrospective pocketbook voting. Focusing on two large reforms in Sweden, we establish a causal chain from policies to sizeable individual gains and losses and then to voting. The Social Democrats proposed budget cuts affecting parents with young...
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