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Members of Parliament (MPs) was instrumental in this. We find that three factors influenced their rebellion calculus: the MP …
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We use a change in the voting procedures of one of the two chambers of the Swiss parliament to explore how transparency … affects the voting behavior of its members. Until 2013, the Council of States (Ständerat) had voted by a show of hands. While …-consuming screening of online videos. In 2014, halfway through the legislative period, the chamber switched to electronic voting. Since …
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Campaign expenditures are not effective in increasing candidates vote shares if voters do not respond to the advertisement when they believe that campaign expenditures are financed with tainted money. In this situation, limiting contributions may reduce the number of policy favors that...
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groups are involved in vote buying. Testing the theoretical predictions based on two decades of roll-call voting in the U …
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What are the political consequences of the diffusion of broadband internet? We address this question by studying the 2008 US presidential election, the first political campaign where the internet played a key role. Drawing on data from the FEC and the FCC, we provide robust evidence that...
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Can right-wing terrorism increase support for far-right populist parties, and if so, why? Exploiting quasi-random variation between successful and failed attacks across German municipalities, we find that successful attacks lead to significant increases in the vote share for the right-wing,...
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This paper explores whether professional macroeconomic forecasters manipulate their forecasts to influence voting …
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on the EU policies has nevertheless been limited. This is due not only to the arcane voting rules within the EU, but also …, however, they have to coordinate their voting and become a more coherent voting group than they are now. -- European Union … ; voting system ; European council ; new member states …
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