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corresponding to its ideology if it has ruled the municipality several legislatures in a row.The paper proposes an empirical …
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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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whether government ideology predicts the levels and increases in the real estate transfer tax rates; and show that leftwing …
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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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. The policy positions taken can often be determined by ideology. We examine economic policy positions by investigating …
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We examine how donor government ideology influences the composition of foreign aid flows. We use data for 23 OECD …
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reform in China that was rolled out between 2004 and 2010 with the explicit intention of shaping youths’ ideology. To measure …
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natural experiment, we examine how government ideology influenced the introduction of tuition fees. The results show that …
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The theory of economic voting has extensively explored the influence of national economic conditions on votes for the incumbent party during elections. Such literature has never, however, explored the potential effects of economy on other types of voting swings in the sense of change in votes...
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power. Our second result clarifies how the success of an interest group hinges on the dominance of its ideology in the …
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