Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 809
Cover Image
Elites or masses? : a structural model of policy divergence, voter sorting and apparent polarization in US presidential elections, 1972 - 2008
Krasa, Stefan; Polborn, Mattias - 2012
candidates ; policy divergence ; ideology ; voter migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009503800
Cover Image
Immigration, political ideologies and the polarization of American politics
Dreher, Axel; Langlotz, Sarah; Matzat, Johannes; Mayda, … - 2020
and the ideology of politicians campaigning for the House of Representatives in the 1992-2016 period. Implementing various … polarization measures based on ideology data derived from 16 million campaign finance contributors, our results show that migrant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012391360
Cover Image
The Democratic-Republican presidential growth gap and the partisan balance of the state government
Cahan, Dodge; Potrafke, Niklas - 2017
Higher economic growth was generated during Democratic presidencies compared to Republican presidencies in the United States. The question is why. Blinder and Watson (2016) explain that the Democratic-Republican presidential growth gap (D-R growth gap) can hardly be attributed to the policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663552
Cover Image
Government ideology and economic policy-making in the United States
Potrafke, Niklas - 2017
This paper describes the role of government ideology on economic policy-making in the United States. I consider studies …, measurement of government ideology and empirical strategies to identify causal effects. Many studies conclude that parties do …, but these studies using data for the national level do not derive causal effects. Ideology-induced policies are prevalent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646733
Cover Image
Politics from the bench? : ideology and strategic voting in the U.S. supreme court
Clark, Tom S.; Montagnes, B. Pablo; Spenkuch, Jörg L. - 2018
those that were not. When a justice's choice decides the outcome of a case, her ideology plays an even greater role in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011919377
Cover Image
Partisan bias in inflation expectations
Bachmann, Oliver; Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas; … - 2019
disentangle the extent to which political ideology and other individual characteristics predict inflation expectations: around 25 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119953
Cover Image
Active courts and menu contracts
Anderlini, Luca (contributor); Felli, Leonardo (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003456217
Cover Image
The perks of being in the smaller team : incentives in overlapping contests
March, Christoph; Sahm, Marco - 2019
We investigate overlapping contests in multi-divisional organizations in which an individual's effort simultaneously determines the outcome of several contests on different hierarchical levels. We show that individuals in smaller units are advantaged in the grand (organization-wide) contest for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138834
Cover Image
Ideology and dissent among economists : the Joint Economic Forecast of German economic research institutes
Ha Quyen Ngo; Potrafke, Niklas; Riem, Marina; Schinke, … - 2015
. The policy positions taken can often be determined by ideology. We examine economic policy positions by investigating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280858
Cover Image
Curriculum and ideology
Cantoni, Davide; Chen, Yuyu; Yang, David Y.; Yuchtman, Noam - 2014
reform in China that was rolled out between 2004 and 2010 with the explicit intention of shaping youths' ideology. To measure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010347333