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We study management practices and performance of public sector organizations in Germany. For a representative sample of municipalities, we provide survey evidence for substantial het-erogeneity in the use of structured management practices. This heterogeneity is not driven by differences across...
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investigate the ”global” determinants of populism, we look at trade and immigration jointly and consider their size as well as … well as high-skill immigration, tend to reduce the volume of populism. …We analyze the long-run evolution of populism and explore the role of globalization in shaping such evolution. We use …
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. We exploit firm-level panel data on product and process innovation activities in the United Kingdom and find that the … large, low-skill labor supply (immigration) shock generated by the 2004 expansion of the European Union to Eastern European … countries increased process innovation and reduced product innovation. This implies that the innovation response to labor supply …
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The objective of this paper is to explain populist attitudes that are prevailing in a number of European democracies. Populist attitudes expectedly lead to social protests and populist votes. We capture the populist wave by relying not on voting behavior but rather on values that are...
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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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Populist movements increasingly challenge liberal Western market democracies. Populism can be explained only in part by … populism as well. In this chapter, we ask whether elements of public deliberation may be a means to reasonably responding to …
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. We analyze Polish immigration in the context of the 2004 enlargement of the European Union and find a positive and … particularly interesting as Polish immigration to Germany was not based on selection by qualification in our period of analysis. …
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We study the consequences of populism for government performance and the quality of bureaucracy. When voters lose trust … a sharp decrease in the percentage of graduate bureaucrats. These results contribute to the literature on populism …
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attitudes. Along with the subjects’ receptiveness to right-wing populism, we elicit their perceived relative income positions in … are more attuned to populist statements. Key to understanding the misperception-populism relationship are strong gender …
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