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The Influence of Special Interests and Party Activists on Electoral Competition
Martineau, Nicolas-Guillaume - 2021
This paper studies the effects on electoral competition of political parties relying on monetary donations and volunteer labor for their electioneering activities. It also examines whether a recorded decline in party activism increases special-interest influence on party policy platforms....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315913
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The Real Estate Transfer Tax and Government Ideology : Evidence from the German States
Krause, Manuela - 2017
whether government ideology predicts the levels and increases in the real estate transfer tax rates; and show that leftwing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012953939
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Government Ideology and Economic Policy-Making in the United States
Potrafke, Niklas - 2017
This paper describes the role of government ideology on economic policy-making in the United States. I consider studies …, measurement of government ideology and empirical strategies to identify causal effects. Many studies conclude that parties do …, but these studies using data for the national level do not derive causal effects. Ideology-induced policies are prevalent …
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Tax Interaction Among Walloon Municipalities : Is there Room for Yardstick Competition, Intellectual Trend and Partisan Monopoly Effect?
Gérard, Marcel - 2012
corresponding to its ideology if it has ruled the municipality several legislatures in a row.The paper proposes an empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096572
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Pay for Politicians and Candidate Selection : An Empirical Analysis
Kotakorpi, Kaisa - 2010
A growing theoretical literature on the effect of politicians' salaries on the average level of skills of political candidates yields ambiguous predictions. In this paper, we estimate the effect of pay for politicians on the level of education of parliamentary candidates. We take advantage of an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141083
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Using Political Financing Reforms to Measure Campaign Spending Effects on Electoral Outcomes
Francois, Abel - 2017
This paper studies the impact of campaign spending on votes in French legislative elections. We exploit the political financing reforms which were adopted in France in the mid-1990s. Under the new laws, spending limits were reduced, legal persons were no longer allowed to finance candidates, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964777
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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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Go Divisive or Not? How Political Campaigns Affect Turnout
Gennaioli, Caterina - 2021
This paper studies how political competition can lead candidates to strategically increase the salience of specific issues, in order to influence voting decisions of marginal groups, with non trivial consequences for turnout rates. In my setup issues differ in their divisiveness, to be defined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316074
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Ideology and Dissent Among Economists : The Joint Economic Forecast of German Economic Research Institutes
Ngo, Ha Quyen - 2015
. The policy positions taken can often be determined by ideology. We examine economic policy positions by investigating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020572
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Donor Ideology and Types of Foreign Aid
Brech, Viktor - 2013
We examine how donor government ideology influences the composition of foreign aid flows. We use data for 23 OECD …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079291