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Happy Voters
Liberini, Federica; Redoano, Michela; Proto, Eugenio - 2021
Motivated by recent interest and initiatives taken by several governments and international organizations to come up with indicators of well-being to inform policy makers, we test if subjective well-being measures (SWB) can be employed to study voting behaviour. Controlling for financial and...
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Information Aggregation in Democratic Mechanisms
Britz, Volker - 2016
involving a sample group. These mechanisms reflect the principles of liberal democracy, are procedurally efficient, and involve …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994342
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Does Direct Democracy Reduce the Size of Government? New Evidence from Historical Data, 1890-2000
Funk, Patricia - 2009
democracy has a constraining, but modest effect on spending. Our estimates suggest that a mandatory budget referendum reduces …Using a new dataset of Swiss cantons from 1890 to 2000, we estimate the causal effect of direct democracy on government … spending by 2.2 percent. We find no evidence that direct democracy at the canton level results in higher local spending or a …
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The Determinants of Islamophobia - An Empirical Analysis of the Swiss Minaret Referendum
Orlanski, Olga - 2018
We analyze the determinants of Islamophobia using the only nation-wide anti-Islam referendum ever, which was held in … Switzerland in 2009 and led to the prohibition of minarets. We find economic, environmental, and cultural factors as well as the … share of men, and in the Italian and German speaking parts of Switzerland. It is higher in municipalities with a higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930285
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Socio-Economic Heterogeneity and Electoral Turnout : An Aggregate Analysis with Precinct-Level Data
Bellettini, Giorgio - 2014
In this paper we perform an empirical analysis to investigate the impact of socio-economic heterogeneity on electoral turnout. We exploit a unique dataset on local elections in an Italian municipality, which merges information on socio-economic characteristics of about 370,000 individuals with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045917
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How Much Do Means-Tested Benefits Reduce the Demand for Annuities?
Butler, Monika - 2011
occupational pension wealth observed in Switzerland …
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A Banana Republic? Trust in Electoral Institutions in Western Democracies - Evidence from a Presidential Election in Austria
Potrafke, Niklas - 2017
We examine the extent to which political scandals influence trust in electoral institutions in established Western democracies. The second ballot of the 2016 Presidential election in Austria needed to be repeated because of inconsistencies in individual electoral districts (scandal districts)....
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Vote Buying or (Political) Business (Cycles) as Usual?
Aidt, Toke Skovsgaard; Asatryan, Zareh; Badalyan, Lusine; … - 2021
We study the short-run effect of elections on monetary aggregates in a sample of 85 low and middle income democracies (1975-2009). We find an increase in the growth rate of M1 during election months of about one tenth of a standard deviation. A similar effect can neither be detected in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315531
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Expressive Voting and Political Ideology in a Laboratory Democracy
Wiese, Rasmus - 2016
We test the theory of expressive voting in relation to political ideology in a laboratory experiment. After deriving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996429
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Social Polarization and Partisan Voting in Representative Democracies
Duell, Dominik - 2018
While scholars and pundits alike have expressed concern regarding increasing social polarization based on partisan identity, there has been little analysis of how social polarization impacts voting. In this paper, we incorporate social identity into a principal-agent model of political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915567