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The impact of council's internal decision-making rules on the future EU

Widgrén, Mika (contributor) - 2008

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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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A Lipsetian theory of democratization : development, education, inequality, and resources

Boucekkine, Raouf; Piacquadio, Paolo G.; Prieur, Fabien - 2016

The paper reexamines Lipset's theory of democratization, by distinguishing the role of (economic) development from that … explanation of the positive relationship between economic development, education, and democratization, and of the negative … relationship between inequality and democratization. Furthermore, we obtain new insights on the resources-curse hypothesis and on …

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The growth effect of democracy : is it heterogenous and how can it be estimated?

Persson, Torsten (contributor); … - 2007

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An empirical inquiry into the nature of welfarism

Amegashie, J. Atsu; Ouattara, Bazoumana - 2011

Economists typically evaluate policies based on how such policies affect individuals' utilities. We follow this approach by taking a welfarist view of the USA's espoused policy of promoting liberty in other parts of the world. However, we take a nuanced view by investigating the type of welfare...

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