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Terrorism prevention and electoral accountability

Dragu, Tiberiu; Polborn, Mattias - 2009

How does electoral accountability affect the effectiveness of terrorism prevention in a democ- racy? We analyze the … connection between electoral accountability and policy effectiveness in the context of terrorism prevention. We develop a formal … objective of terrorism prevention and have symmetric information. We show that electoral pressures to be successful in terrorism …

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New Forms of Democracy

Gersbach, Hans - 2022

In the third decade of the 21st century, digitization, global events, challenges from authoritarian states, and difficulties of particular democracies to function properly confront democracy with a new series of challenges and opportunities that will force it to reinvent itself. The last decades...

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The Predictive Power of Political Pundits: Prescient or Pitiful?

Metaxas, Phillip; Leigh, Andrew - 2013

both the 2007 and 2010 Federal elections, we are struck by the paucity of falsifiable predictions, with most pundits …

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Voting Advice Applications and Elections

Benesch, Christine; Heim, Rino L.; Schelker, Mark; … - 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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Political Competition, Tax Salience and Accountability: Theory and Some Evidence from Italy

Bracco, Emanuele; Porcelli, Francesco; Redoano, Michela - 2013

necessarily preferable. These predictions are largely confirmed using a dataset on Italian municipal elections and taxes. …

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Intergovernmental Grants as Signals and the Alignment Effect: Theory and Evidence

Bracco, Emanuele; Lockwood, Benjamin; Porcelli, Francesco; … - 2015

stronger before elections, and the probability that the aligned local incumbent is re-elected is higher. These predictions are …

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Incumbent effects and partisan alignment in local elections: A regression discontinuity analysis using Italian data

Bracco, Emanuele; Porcelli, Francesco; Redoano, Michela - 2013

This paper provides a simple model to explain effect of political alignment between different tiers of government on policy choices and election outcomes. We derive precise predictions that, as long as voters attribute most of the credit for providing public goods to the local government: (i)...

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Terrorism and Misperceptions : Evidence from Europe

Arin, K. Peren; Khalil, Umair; Mazrekaj, Deni; Thum, … - 2023

How does exposure to Islamist terrorism change perceptions of the share of Muslims and immigrants? We conduct a large …

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Lexicographic voting

Klingelhöfer, Jan - 2012

This paper reconsiders the division of the literature on electoral competition into models with forward-looking voters and those with backward-looking voters by combining ideas from both strands of the literature. As long as there is no uncertainty about voters' policy preferences and parties...

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Democratization and the size of government: Evidence from the long 19th century

Aidt, Toke; Jensen, Peter S. - 2013

We study the consequences of franchise extension and ballot reform for the size of government in Western Europe between 1820 and 1913. We find that franchise extension exhibits a U-shaped association with revenue per capita and a positive association with spending per capita. Instrumental...

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