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How to use indicators for "corporatism" in empirical applications
Leertouwer, Erik Christian; Haan, Jakob de - 2002
There exist many indicators for corporatism. Using a latent variables approach, we extract common aspects in 29 … corporatism indicators which have been suggested in the literature and find two factors that can be identified as the degree of …
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Redistributive politics and the tyranny of the middle class
Zoutman, Floris T.; Jacobs, Bas; Jongen, Egbert L. W. - 2016
The Netherlands has a unique tradition in which all major Dutch political parties provide CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis with highly detailed proposals for the tax benefit system in every national election. This information allows us to quantitatively measure the...
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How does party discipline affect legislative behavior? : evidence from within-session variation in lame duck status
Fiva, Jon H.; Nedregård, Oda - 2022
How important are political parties in motivating and disciplining elected officials? Using a difference-in-discontinuity design, we study how shocks to incumbents're-election probabilities affect legislative behavior in a setting where parties fully control candidate selection. We find that...
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Do party positions affect the public's policy preferences?
Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina - 2019
The standard assumption of exogenous policy preferences implies that parties set their positions according to their voters' preferences. We investigate the reverse effect: Are the electorates' policy preferences responsive to party positions? In a representative German survey, we inform...
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Partisan fiscal policy : evidence from Central and Eastern Europe
Schneider, Ondřej - 2019
This paper examines effects of political ideology of a governing party on fiscal outcomes, using data from eight Central and Eastern European countries in the 2001-2017 period. The analysis shows that there is a statistically significant effect of conservative governments on fiscal variables,...
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Understanding the origins of populist political parties and the role of external shocks
Levi, Eugenio; Sin, Isabelle; Stillman, Steven - 2021
We use electoral survey data to examine the impact that two large external shocks had on the development of New Zealand First (NZF), one of the oldest populist parties in the OECD. We find that structural reforms, which led to large negative impacts on particular locations, and immigration...
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Medieval anti-semitism, Weimar social capital, and the rise of the nazi party : a reconsideration
Guinnane, Timothy; Hoffman, Philip - 2022
The persistence literature in economics and related disciplines connects recent outcomes to events long ago. This influential literature marks a promising development but has drawn criticism. We discuss two prominent examples that ground the rise of the Nazi Party in distant historical roots....
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Political persistence, connections and economic growth
Bellettini, Giorgio; Berti Ceroni, Carlotta; Prarolo, … - 2009
Using data on a panel of 56 democratic countries in the period 1975-2004, we find evidence of a negative association between political stability and economic growth which is stronger and empirically more robust in countries with high bureaucratic costs. Motivated by these results, which contrast...
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The positive economics of labor market rigidities and investor protection
Fehn, Rainer; Meier, Carsten-Patrick - 2001
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A productive clash of cultures : injecting economics into leadership research
Zehnder, Christian; Herz, Holger; Bonardi, Jean-Philippe - 2016
Research on leadership in economics has developed in parallel to the literature in management and psychology and links … between the fields have been sparse. Whereas modern leadership scholars mostly focus on transformational and related … leadership styles, economists have mainly emphasized the role of contracts, control rights, and incentives. We argue that both …
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