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Framing Effects in Political Decision Making: Evidence From a Natural Voting Experiment

Bütler, Monika; Maréchal, Michel André - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2007

This paper analyzes a recent ballot in which two virtually identical popular initiatives, both demanding a decrease in the legal age of retirement in Switzerland, led to differences in approval rates of nearly seven percentage points. Based on this unique natural experiment, the existence of...

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A Little Fairness may Induce a Lot of Redistribution in Democracy

Tyran, Jean-Robert; Sausgruber, Rupert - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2002

We use a model of self-centered inequality aversion suggested by Fehr and Schmidt (1999) to study voting on … redistribution experiment, and find that it predicts voting outcomes far better than the standard model of voting assuming …

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Campaigning in Direct Democracies: Initiative Petition Signing, Voter Turnout, and Acceptance

Jaronicki, Katharina - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2013

instrument by revealing potentially relevant information to the signer which increases the benefit from voting or reduces its … cost. The analysis is based on the complete sample of Swiss federal initiatives between 1978 and 2000 with aggregate voting … research relates to turnout and voting literature in general, and to campaigning and voter motivation more specifically …

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Does Female Suffrage Increase Public Support for Government Spending? Evidence from Swiss Ballots

Hofer, Katharina E. - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2015

treatment effect of being female on support for government spending, by analyzing the voting outcomes of two similar Swiss … on municipal voting data, I relate the increase in the electorate to the difference in acceptance rates for the two …

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Ready to Reform: How Popular Initiatives Can Be Successful

Hofer, Katharina Eva; Marti, Christian; Bütler, Monika - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2014

the voting rules. Overall, we find supporting evidence for the model mechanisms. Reforms are most likely once a far …

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