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Conservative Politicians and Voting on Same-Sex Marriage
Kauder, Bjoern - 2017
We examine whether conservative politicians are less likely to support same-sex marriage when they run for office in … around 1.3 percentage points. We conjecture that politicians are election-motivated – even when submitting roll-call votes on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942384
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The Right Look : Conservative Politicians Look Better and Their Voters Reward it
Berggren, Niclas - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131348
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The Design of Political Institutions : Electoral Competition and the Choice of Ballot Access Restrictions in the United States
Drometer, Marcus; Rincke, Johannes - 2021
Recent contributions to the political economics literature (Trebbi et al. 2007; Aghion et al. 2004) have challenged the view that political institutions are exogenous to the behaviour of agents in the political arena. We explicitly address the potential endogeneity of institutions by examining the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316474
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Identification of Voters with Interest Groups Improves the Electoral Chances of the Challenger
Sadiraj, Vjollca; Tuinstra, Jan; Van Winden, F. A. A. M. - 2021
Interest groups are introduced in a spatial model of electoral competition between two political parties. We show that, by coordinating voting behavior, these interest groups increase the winning set, which is defined as the set of policy platforms for the challenger that will defeat the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316216
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The Political Economy of Taxation : Power, Structure, Redistribution
Winer, Stanley L. - 2017
In this chapter I provide an overview of the political economy of taxation in democratic states by considering the three most important issues in the field: (1) the evolution of the power to tax in (what are now) the mature constitutional democracies; (2) the nature and determinants of modern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964375
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Evidence on the Political Principal-Agent Problem from Voting on Public Finance for Concert Halls
Potrafke, Niklas - 2013
Principal-agent problems can arise when preferences of voters are not aligned with preferences of political representatives. Often the consequence of the political principal-agent problem is political catering to special interests. In this paper I provide examples of principal-agent problems...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079370
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Political Competition and Mirrleesian Income Taxation : A First Pass
Bierbrauer, Felix J. - 2011
We study Downsian competition in a Mirrleesian model of income taxation. The competing politicians may differ in … competence. If politicians engage in vote-share maximization, the less competent politician's policy proposals are attractive to … and Coate (1998). Political failures are avoided if politicians maximize winning probabilities. Nevertheless, the two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131548
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Dynamic Commercial Lobbying
Groll, Thomas - 2013
This study explains the observed repeated personal interactions between lobbyists and policymakers. The analysis uses a dynamic model of commercial lobbying in which citizens may hire lobbyists to present policy proposals on their behalf to policymakers. It is shown that repeated interactions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086417
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Targeted Campaign Competition, Loyal Voters, and Supermajorities
Boyer, Pierre; Roberson, Brian - 2017
We consider campaign competition in which candidates compete for votes among a continuum of voters by engaging in persuasive efforts that are targetable. Each individual voter is persuaded by campaign effort and votes for the candidate who targets more persuasive effort to this voter. Each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956898
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Repeated Lobbying by Commercial Lobbyists and Special Interests
Groll, Thomas - 2016
Using a model of repeated agency, we explain previously unexplained features of the real-world lobbying industry. Lobbying is divided between direct representation by special interests to policymakers, and indirect representation where special interests employ professional intermediaries called...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994576