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Political participation and the welfare state
Borck, Rainald - 2018
A large literature has claimed that higher political participation increases welfare spending. In this paper, I review … this literature. I study the theoretical link between participation and redistributive spending. Then, I survey the … empirical literature on the link between education, income and political participation, as well as that between political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011867915
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Voting advice applications and elections
Benesch, Christine; Heim, Rino L.; Schelker, Mark; … - 2021
We analyze how the introduction of the voting advice application (VAA) smartvote affects voter turnout, voting behavior and electoral outcomes. The Swiss context offers an ideal setting to identify the causal effects of online information with aggregate real world data because smartvote was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012421257
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Political support, cognitive dissonance and political preferences
Artiga González, Tanja; Capozza, Francesco; Granic, … - 2022
Voters often express support for a candidate whose policy platforms differ from their ideal policy preferences. We argue that under these circumstance acts of expressing support can causally change voters’ policy preferences. We conceptualize our arguments in a theoretical model of policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012806659
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Democracy with group identity
Hillman, Arye L.; Metsuyanim, Kfir; Potrafke, Niklas - 2015 - 25 March-2015 final
Group-based identity undermines democracy by impeding democratic change of government. A substantial literature has therefore studied how to make democracy consistent with group identity. We contribute to this literature by introducing the role of group decisiveness into voting incentives and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498619
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Voting suffrage and the political budget cycle : evidence from the London Metropolitan Boroughs 1902 - 1937
Aidt, Toke; Mooney, Graham - 2014
We study the opportunistic political budget cycle in the London Metropolitan Boroughs between 1902 and 1937 under two different suffrage regimes: taxpayer suffrage (1902-1914) and universal suffrage (1921-1937). We argue and find supporting evidence that the political budget cycle operates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010237194
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When is voting optimal?
Ben-Yashar, Ruth; Danziger, Leif - 2014
We consider a framework where the optimal decision rule determining the collective choice depends in a simple way on the decision makers’ posterior probabilities of a particular state of nature. Nevertheless, voting is generally an inefficient way to make collective choices and this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462767
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Negative campaigning in a probabilistic voting model
Brueckner, Jan K.; Lee, Kangoh - 2013
This paper extends the small existing theoretical literature on negative campaigning, building on work by Harrington and Hess (1996). While their analysis explores the determinants of negative campaign spending using a classic spatial voting model, this paper relies instead on a probabilistic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009743849
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The economic approach to political borders
Spolaore, Enrico - 2022
This paper overviews theoretical and empirical contributions that study political borders from an economic perspective. It reviews theories of the number and size of nations focused on the trade-off between economies of scale in public-good provision and heterogeneity of preferences over public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013473678
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The politics of public service reform : experimental evidence from Liberia
Sandholtz, Wayne Aaron - 2023
This paper provides experimental evidence on the electoral effect of a large education reform in a developing democracy. Despite significantly improving school quality, the policy reduced the incumbent party's presidential vote share by 3 percentage points (10%). This does not imply that voters...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014336473
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Voting on labour-market integration and education policy when citizens differ in mobility and ability
Haupt, Alexander; Übelmesser, Silke - 2009
We analyse how institutional and political decisions are intertwined. Citizens who differ in their mobility and ability vote first on labour market integration and afterwards on education policy. The institutional decision on integration influences the succeeding education policy. More...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003818041