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Are immigrants more left-leaning than natives?

Moriconi, Simone; Peri, Giovanni; Turati, Riccardo - 2022

We analyze whether second generation immigrants have different political preferences relative to observationally identical host country's citizens. Using data on individual voting behavior in 22 European countries between 2001 and 2017 we characterize each vote on a left-right scale using...

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Skill of the Immigrants and Vote of the Natives : Immigration and Nationalism in European Elections 2007-2016

Moriconi, Simone - 2018

In this paper we document the impact of immigration at the regional level on Europeans' political preferences as expressed by voting behavior in parliamentary or presidential elections between 2007 and 2016. We combine individual data on party voting with a classification of each party's...

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A Theory of Power Structure and Institutional Compatibility : China vs. Europe Revisited

Jia, Ruixue; Roland, Gérard; Xie, Yang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

opportunities to access elite status than Premodern Europe, for example via the civil service exam and the absence of hereditary … differences in the power structure of society: (1) the Ruler enjoyed weaker absolute power in Europe; (2) the People were more on … differences between Imperial China and Premodern Europe, as well as specific institutions such as the bureaucracy in China and the …

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Country-Specific Preferences and Employment Rates in Europe

Moriconi, Simone - 2015

European countries exhibit significant differences in employment rates of adult males. Differences in labor-leisure preferences, partly determined by cultural values that vary across countries, can be responsible for part of these differences. However, differences in labor market institutions,...

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Hobbesian Wars and Separation of Powers

Li, Weijia; Roland, Gérard; Xie, Yang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper formalizes the principle that persecution power of government may generate violent contests over it. We show that this principle yields a large set of theoretical insights on different separation-of-powers institutions that can help to preempt such contests under different...

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Are Immigrants more Left leaning than Natives?

Moriconi, Simone; Peri, Giovanni; Turati, Riccardo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We analyze whether second-generation immigrants have different political preferences relative to observationally identical children of citizens in the host countries. Using data on individual voting behavior in 22 European countries between 2001 and 2017, we characterize each vote on a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388879

Hobbesian wars and separation of powers

Li, Weijia; Roland, Gérard; Xie, Yang - 2023

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013539249

A theory of power structure and institutional compatibility : China vs. Europe revisited

Roland, Gérard; Jia, Ruixue; Xie, Yang - 2021

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