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Chinese Aid and Democratic Values in Latin America

Freytag, Andreas; Kautz, Miriam - 2022

contrast, positive attitudes towards the USA have no robust impact on support for democracy … that Chinese aid poses a challenge to conditional aid, thus weakening democracy promotion. This study aims to deepen our … Survey, we use an instrumental variable approach to test the effect of Chinese aid on attitudes toward democracy in 18 Latin …

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Regional Resources and Democratic Secessionism

Gehring, Kai - 2018

Although regional resources have been shown to influence secessionist conflicts in developing countries, their effect in established democracies has largely been neglected. We integrate resource value in a model on the optimal size of nations and show that regional wealth correlates positively...

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Politics from the Bench? Ideology and Strategic Voting in the U.S. Supreme Court

Clark, Tom - 2019

Supreme Court justices often vote along ideological lines. Is this due to a genuinely different interpretation of the law, or does it reflect justices' desire to resolve politically charged legal questions in accordance with their personal views? To learn more about the nature of decision-making...

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Voting Advice Applications and Elections

Benesch, Christine; Heim, Rino; Schelker, Mark; Schmid, … - 2021

We analyze how the introduction of the voting advice application (VAA) smartvote affects voter turnout, voting behavior and electoral outcomes. The Swiss context offers an ideal setting to identify the causal effects of online information with aggregate real world data because smartvote was...

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Do People Demand Fact-Checked News? Evidence from U.S. Democrats

Chopra, Felix; Haaland, Ingar; Roth, Christopher - 2021

In a large-scale online experiment with U.S. Democrats, we examine how the demand for a newsletter about an economic relief plan changes when the newsletter content is fact-checked. We first document an overall muted demand for fact-checking when the newsletter features stories from an...

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Vote Buying in the US Congress

Matter, Ulrich - 2019

We assess the influence of moneyed interests on legislative decisions. Our theory predicts that the vote outcome distribution and donation flows in a legislature feature a discontinuity at the approval threshold of bills if special interest groups are involved in vote buying. Testing the...

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Gender Differences in Political Career Progression : Evidence from U.S. Elections

Brown, Ryan - 2019

This paper establishes the presence of a substantial gender gap in the relationship between state legislature service and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to compare the differential political career progression of...

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The Idea of Jurisdictional Representation in a Federation : A Proposal and Illustrations from Recent Canadian and US Elections

Ahsan, Syed M. - 2021

The idea of proportional representation has been circulating for over two hundred years and is widely practiced, among other, in post-war Europe. The primary focus is to allow smaller parties, minorities and other disenfranchised groups in society systematic representation in the national...

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The Three Meaningful Votes : Voting on Brexit in the British House of Commons

Aidt, Toke - 2019

Why do politicians rebel and vote against the party line when high stakes bills come to the floor of the legislature? We leverage the three so-called Meaningful Votes that took place in the British House of Commons between January and March 2019 on the Withdrawal Agreement that the Conservative...

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Globalization, Time-Preferences, and Populist Voting

Aronsson, Thomas - 2020

Societies see growing support for populist politicians who advocate an end to globalization. Our behavioral economics model links impatience to voters' appraisals of an income shock due to globalization that is associated with short-run costs and delayed gains. The model shows that impatient...

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