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discussed. Consequently, we propose a mandatory (required and binding) referendum on total and partial revisions of the European … referendum for financially important projects. …
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We analyse the voting pattern in the June 23rd referendum on the continued participation of the United Kingdom in the …
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as other economic and social factors, in determining the support for the Remain vote in the Brexit referendum. We find … that past European transfers have played virtually no role in the referendum. Economically strong regions tend to be in …
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changed significantly since the 2016 EU referendum. A lot of area characteristics, many of which were previously associated …, carried by protest voters, who used the EU referendum to voice their discontent with domestic social and economic developments …
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outcomes. We model a referendum in which a voter chooses between two policies. The voter relies on a forecaster to learn about … referendum and (ii) associated with greater macroeconomic uncertainty. Second, as the influence of the forecast on the voter … after the referendum, at least for some time. We show that these predictions are empirically supported in the context of the …
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This paper studies the impact of national fiscal rules on government size as measured by the ratio of government expenditures to gross domestic product. We develop a model of the budgetary process and show that a common pool problem may arise which can be mitigated through fiscal rules. We test...
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We study whether a democracy improves a measure of individual wellbeing; human heights. Drawing on individual-level datasets, we test the hypothesis using a battery of eight different measures of democracy and derived averages, and include models accounting for several confounders, regional and...
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The objective of this paper is to explain populist attitudes that are prevailing in a number of European democracies. Populist attitudes expectedly lead to social protests and populist votes. We capture the populist wave by relying not on voting behavior but rather on values that are...
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