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Trespassing the Threshold of Relevance: Media Exposure and Opinion Polls of the Sweden Democrats, 2006-2010

Bevelander, Pieter; Hellström, Anders - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

during a 48 month period, from the month after the 2006 elections (October 2006) up to September 2010. Our results show that …

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Public Opinion on Immigration: Has the Recession Changed Minds?

Hatton, Timothy J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

It is widely believed that the current recession has soured public attitudes towards immigration. But most existing studies are cross sectional and can shed little light on the economy-wide forces that shift public opinion on immigration. In this paper I use the six rounds of the European Social...

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What Does the Public Know about Economic Policy, and How Does It Know It?

Blinder, Alan S.; Krueger, Alan B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Public opinion influences politicians, and therefore influences public policy decisions. What are the roles of self …

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The Struggle for Palestinian Hearts and Minds: Violence and Public Opinion in the Second Intifada

Jaeger, David A.; Klor, Esteban F.; Miaari, Sami H.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper examines how violence in the Second Intifada influences Palestinian public opinion. Using micro data from a series of opinion polls linked to data on fatalities, we find that Israeli violence against Palestinians leads them to support more radical factions and more radical attitudes...

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Did Growth and Reforms Increase Citizens' Support for the Transition?

Golinelli, Roberto; Rovelli, Riccardo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

How did post-communist transformations affect people's perceptions of their economic and political systems? We model a pseudo-panel with 89 country-year clusters, based on 13 countries observed between 1991 and 2004, to identify the macro and institutional drivers of the public opinion. Our main...

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Positional Concerns through the Life Cycle: Evidence from Subjective Well-Being Data and Survey Experiments

Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper uses both subjective well-being and survey experimental data to analyze how people's positional concerns regarding income and goods vary with age. The subjective well-being approach is mainly based on German panel data for the period 1984-2009 (German Socio-Economic Panel), while the...

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The Effect of Economic Change and Elite Framing on Economic Preferences: A Survey Experiment

Marx, Paul; Schumacher, Gijs - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

An unresolved question in political science is how economic downturns affect citizens' economic left-right preferences. Existing observational studies fail to isolate the effect of economic conditions and the effect of elite framing of these conditions. We therefore designed a survey experiment...

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E-Lections: Voting Behavior and the Internet

Falck, Oliver; Gold, Robert; Heblich, Stephan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Internet effect between national and local elections to a crowding out of national but not local newspapers. …

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Competing Approaches to Forecasting Elections: Economic Models, Opinion Polling and Prediction Markets

Leigh, Andrew; Wolfers, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We review the efficacy of three approaches to forecasting elections: econometric models that project outcomes on the … basis of the state of the economy; public opinion polls; and election betting (prediction markets). We assess the efficacy … of each in light of the 2004 Australian election. This election is particularly interesting both because of innovations …

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Tacit Lobbying Agreements: An Experimental Study

Großer, Jens; Reuben, Ernesto; Tymula, Agnieszka - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

-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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