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The right look: Conservative politicians look better than their voters reward it

Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2010

Previous research has established that good-looking political candidates win more votes. We extend this line of research by examining differences between parties on the left and on the right of the political spectrum. Our study combines data on personal votes in real elections with a web survey...

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Social ideology and taxes in a differentiated candidates framework

Krasa, Stefan; Polborn, Mattias - 2011

How does ideological polarization on non-economic matters influence the size of government? We analyze this question using a differentiated candidates framework: Two office-motivated candidates differ in their (fixed) ideological position and their production function for public goods, and...

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Elites or masses? A structural model of policy divergence, voter sorting and apparent polarization in U.S. presidential elections, 1972-2008

Krasa, Stefan; Polborn, Mattias - 2012

One of the most widely discussed phenomena in American politics today is the perceived increasing partisan divide that splits the U.S. electorate. A central contested question is whether this diagnosis is actually true, and if so, what is the underlying cause. We develop a model that relates the...

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Looking back on anger: Explaining the social origins of left-wing and nationalist-separatist terrorism in Western Europe, 1970-2007

Brockhoff, Sarah; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2012

A unique dataset is used to separately analyze the social origins of left-wing and nationalist-separatist terrorism in 17 Western European countries between 1970 and 2007. We argue that the differences in the historic roots, ultimate goals as well as their negotiability, levels of domestic and...

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Government Ideology and Monetary Policy in OECD Countries

Smarzynska Javorcik, Beata - 2019

We examine the extent to which government ideology has influenced monetary policy in OECD countries since the 1970s. In … the 1972-2010 period, Taylor rule specifications do not suggest a relationship between government ideology and monetary … policy was, however, associated with government ideology in the 1990s: short-term nominal interest rates were lower under …

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Dragnet-Controls and Government Ideology

Potrafke, Niklas - 2019

, in turn, new populist parties that offer more polarized platforms. I investigate whether government ideology influences … ideology-induced policies implemented by established parties. Dragnet- controls confine citizens’ liberties, but may help to … evaluating how government/party ideology influences individual policies, previous econometric studies ignored initiatives in …

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

Clark, Tom - 2019

those that were not. When a justice's choice decides the outcome of a case, her ideology plays an even greater role in …

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Moral Universalism and the Structure of Ideology

Enke, Benjamin - 2019

. Based on a simple model, we propose that what partly explains the particular internal structure of political ideology is …

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Polarization in Parliamentary Speach

Fiva, Jon H.; Nedregård, Oda; Øien, Henning - 2021

We study political polarization in a parliamentary setting dominated by strong parties. In addition to examining polarization along the left-right dimension, we consider political divergence between legislators belonging to the same political bloc. Are politicians’ background characteristics...

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Ideological Motives and Group Decision-Making

Engl, Florian - 2021

This paper studies experimentally when and how ideological motives shape group decision-making outcomes. Groups repeatedly decide between a monetarily preferred outcome that generates a high payoff but also an ideologically undesirable externality, or an ideologically preferred outcome that...

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