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Non-partisan 'get-out-the-vote' efforts and policy outcomes

Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian - 2009

This paper utilizes a simple model of redistributive politics with voter abstention to analyze the impact of nonpartisan 'get-out-the-vote' efforts on policy outcomes. Although such efforts are often promoted on the grounds that they provide the social benefit of increasing participation in the...

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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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Read My Lips? Taxes and Elections

Fuest, Clemens; Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas; … - 2021

We introduce a new dataset that includes quantitative harmonized indices of tax reforms based on qualitative information of about 900 Economic Surveys from the OECD and 37,000 tax-related news from the IBFD archives. The data set provides indicators on tax reforms for tax rates and tax bases,...

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Migrants' Missing Votes

Giesing, Yvonne; Schikora, Felicitas - 2021

Emigrants are less likely to participate in elections in their home country. They are also self-selected in terms of education, gender, age, and political preferences, changing the structure of the origin population. High emigration rates can therefore have a systematic influence on election...

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Political Support, Cognitive Dissonance and Political Preferences

Artiga González, Tanja; Capozza, Francesco; Granic, … - 2022

conceptualize our arguments in a theoretical model of policy preference changes rooted in cognitive dissonance theory. A pre …-registered, online experiment with 1,200 U.S. participants confirms our main hypotheses. As predicted by cognitive dissonance theory …

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Young Voters and Budget Deficits

Nyhus, Ole Henning; Strøm, Bjarne - 2023

This paper exploits a novel trial in Norwegian local elections in 2011 to provide empirical evidence on fiscal performance from lowering the minimum voting age from 18 to 16. Using a difference in differences research strategy, we find that this voting age change reduced the net operating...

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Redistribution of Return Inequality

Schulz, Karl - 2021

Wealthier households obtain higher returns on their investments than poorer ones. How should the tax system account for this return inequality? I study capital taxation in an economy in which return rates endogenously correlate with wealth. The leading example is a financial market, where the...

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Collective Emotions and Protest Vote

Altomonte, Carlo - 2019

We leverage on important findings in social psychology to build a behavioral theory of protest vote. An individual …, i.e. when her relative deprivation increases. In line with the Intergroup Emotions Theory, this feeling is amplified if … populist rhetoric. The theory predicts higher support for the protest party when individuals identify more strongly with their …

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Redistribution or education?: the political economy of the social race

Bernasconi, Michele; Profeta, Paola - 2007

In an overlapping generations model with two social classes, rich and poor, parents of the different social classes vote on two issues: redistributive policies for them and education investments for their kids. Public education is the engine for growth through its effect on human capital; but it...

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Judiciaries in Corrupt Societies

Priks, Mikael - 2021

Recent empirical work shows that judicial dependence can explain high levels of corruption. This paper examines how the dependence of judiciaries influences corruption at different levels of the government in a model where the central government, low-level officials, and the judiciary are...

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