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Enlargements and the principles of designing EU : decision-making procedures

Widgrén, Mika - 2003

This paper examines how neutral the current EU decision-making procedures are to membership and how well they obey certain transparent general constitutional principles. The paper evaluates the performance of the procedures by strategic and classical power indices. The main emphasis in the...

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Terrorism and voting : the rise of right-wing populism in Germany

Sabet, Navid; Liebald, Marius; Friebel, Guido - 2023

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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Biased forecasts and voting : the Brexit referendum case

Bizzotto, Jacopo; Cipullo, Davide; Reslow, André - 2024 - This version: July 1, 2024

This paper explores whether professional macroeconomic forecasters manipulate their forecasts to influence voting …

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Voting in the European Union : Central Europe's lost voice

Schneider, Ondřej (contributor) - 2008

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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Does membership on the UN security council influence IMF decisions? : evidence from panel data

Dreher, Axel (contributor); Sturm, Jan-Egbert (contributor); … - 2006

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Framing effects in political decision making : evidence from a natural voting experiment

Bütler, Monika (contributor); … - 2007

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Taxes or fees? : the political economy of providing excludable public goods

Swope, Kurtis J.; Janeba, Eckhard - 2001

This paper provides a positive analysis of public provision of excludable public goods financed by uniform taxes or fees. Individuals differing in preferences decide using majority-rule the provision level and financing instrument. The median preference individual is the decisive voter in a tax...

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Voter confirmation bias and electoral accountability

Lockwood, Ben - 2015 - First version: 8 February 2015, This version: 7 June 2015

This paper considers the implications of an important cognitive bias in information processing, confirmation bias, in a political agency setting. In the baseline two-period case where only the politician's actions are observable before the election, we show that when voters have this bias, it...

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Earmarking and the political support of fat taxes

Cremer, Helmuth; Goulão, Catarina; Roeder, Kerstin - 2015 - Rev. August 2015

majority voting. Individuals vote according to their misperceived utility function. Consequently, excessive fat consumption is …

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Politics and IMF conditionality

Dreher, Axel; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Vreeland, James Raymond - 2013 - This version: June 2013

Bailouts sponsored by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are famous for their conditionality: in return for continued installments of desperately needed loans, governments must comply with austere policy changes. Many have suggested, however, that politically important countries face rather...

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