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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
-registered, online experiment with 1,200 U.S. participants confirms our main hypotheses. As predicted by cognitive dissonance theory … conceptualize our arguments in a theoretical model of policy preference changes rooted in cognitive dissonance theory. A pre …
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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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Transparency and Policy Competition : Experimental Evidence from German Citizens and Politicians
Blesse, Sebastian; Lergetporer, Philipp; Nover, Justus; … - 2023
A lack of transparency about policy performance can pose a major obstacle to welfare-enhancing policy competition across jurisdictions. In parallel surveys with German citizens and state parliamentarians, we document that both groups misperceive the performance of their state’s education...
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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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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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Are Groups More Rational than Individuals? A Review of Interactive Decision Making in Groups
Kugler, Tamar - 2012
Many decisions are interactive; the outcome of one party depends not only on its decisions or on acts of nature but also on the decisions of others. In the present article, we review the literature on decision making made by groups of the past 25 years. Researchers have compared the strategic...
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Voting on Urban Land Development
Wrede, Matthias - 2020
In this paper, we analyze several local referendums on land development and land-use regulation in the City of Erlangen (Germany) in the period between 2011 and 2018. To identify the positive influence of the travel distance on approval for the development of land, we employ a two-way...
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A Prospect-Theory Model of Voter Turnout
Herrmann, Oliver - 2019
We incorporate prospect-theory preferences in a game-theoretic model to study voter turnout. We show that voter turnout …
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