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Correcting Mistakes: Cognitive Dissonance and Political Attitudes in Sweden and the United States

Elinder, Mikael - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

Cognitive dissonance theory predicts that the act of voting makes people more positive toward the party or candidate … turnout provided by the voting age restriction. I improve on previous studies by investigating political attitudes, measured … just before elections, when they are highly predictive of voting. In contrast to earlier studies I find no effect of voting …

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Local Economies and General Elections: The Influence of Municipal and Regional Economic Conditions on Voting in Sweden 1985–2002

Elinder, Mikael - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010

This paper presents a detailed analysis of voters’ responses to municipality and regional-level unemployment and economic growth, using panel data on 284 municipalities and 9 regions, covering Swedish general elections from 1982 to 2002. The preferred specification suggests that a reduction in...

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Punctuality - A Cultural Trait as Equilibrium

Basu, Kaushik; Weibull, Jörgen W. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2002

A people's culture, norms and habits are important determinants not just of the quality of social life but of economic progress and growth. In this paper we take the view that while the importance of culture is undeniable, the innateness of culture is not. We work here with a single example and...

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Incentives in the Welfare State: Lessons for would-be welfare states

Lindbeck, Assar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996

This paper deals with economic incentives and welfare-state arrangements in OECD countries. This paper emphasises what may be called "dynamic" incentive issues, i.e. incentive effects that envolve over time. The discussion also covers the interplay between incentives and social norms among...

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Incentives in the Welfare State: Lessons for Would-be Welfare States.

Lindbeck, A. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996

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Richer (and Holier) Than Thou? The Effect of Relative Income Improvements on Demand for Redistribution

Karadja, Mounir; Möllerström, Johanna; Seim, David - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

We study the extent to which people are misinformed about their relative position in the income distribution and the effects on preferences for redistribution of correcting faulty beliefs. We implement a tailor-made survey in Sweden and document that a vast majority of Swedes believe that they...

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The Effect of Political and Economic Factors on Corporate Tax Rates

Hansson, Åsa; Porter, Susan; Perry Williams, Susan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

Economists and political scientists have long been interested in factors that affect the statutory tax rate on businesses set by federal governments. In this study, we examine the impact of political and economic factors on several measures of tax rates and tax incentives offered across 19...

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Bargaining over a New Welfare State

Bonatti, Alessandro; Thomsson, Kaj - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007

The goal of this paper is twofold: First, to develop an estimable model of legislative politics in the US Congress, second, to provide a greater understanding of the objectives behind the New Deal. In the theoretical model, the distribution of federal funds across regions of the country is the...

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Topping up and the Political Support for Social Insurance

Bergh, Andreas - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013

This paper analyzes how the possibility to complement social income insurance schemes with private insurance affects the political support for social insurance. It is shown that political support for social insurance is weakly decreasing in the replacement rate. Policy makers seeking to maintain...

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Merged Municipalities, Higher Debt: On Free-riding and the Common Pool Problem in Politics

Jordahl, Henrik; Liang, Che-Yuan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2006

We use the 1952 Swedish municipal amalgamation reform to study free-riding and the common pool problem in politics. We expect municipalities that were affected by the reform to increase their debt in anticipation of a merger, and this effect to be larger if they were merged with many other...

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