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Does female suffrage increase public support for government spending? : evidence from Swiss ballots

Hofer, Katharina E. - 2013

In this paper, I analyze the voting outcomes of two very similar Swiss referendum ballots concerning the federal governmentś competency to levy income, capital and turnover taxes to find out how the enfranchisement of women influences public support for government spending. The first ballot...

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Income inequality, voting over the size of public consumption, and growth

Grossmann, Volker - 2002

According to a standard argument, higher income inequality fosters redistributive activities of the government in favor of the median income earner. This paper shows that if redistribution is achieved by a public provision of goods and services rather than by transfers, higher income inequality...

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Does direct democracy reduce the size of government? : new evidence from historical data, 1890 - 2000

Funk, Patricia; Gathmann, Christina - 2009

Using a new dataset of Swiss cantons from 1890 to 2000, we estimate the causal effect of direct democracy on government … democracy has a constraining, but modest effect on spending. Our estimates suggest that a mandatory budget referendum reduces … spending by 2.2 percent. We find no evidence that direct democracy at the canton level results in higher local spending or a …

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War and democracy

Hess, Gregory D.; Orphanides, Athanasios - 1999

This paper presents a general equilibrium model of conflict based on a world populated by representative democracies. At the individual state level, when information regarding a leader's ability to defend the state against unavoidable conflict is va luable to voters, an incumbent leader seeking...

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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 … or replacement of local government because of disfunctionality. Our general contribution is to show how democracy can …

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Do institutions of direct democracy tame the Leviathan? : Swiss evidence on the structure of expenditure for public education

Fischer, Justina A. V. (contributor) - 2005

.S. and Switzerland has raised the question of what its transmission channels are. For the U.S., an increase in the ratio of … administration. For Switzerland, using a cross-sectional time-series panel of sub-federal school expenditure and size of classes, no … public goods for Switzerland have been found. …

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Constitutional determinants of government spending

Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2000

This paper surveys some recent literature on fiscal policy and comparative politics. Economic policy is viewed as the outcome of a game with multiple-principals and multiple-agents. Opportunistic politicians bargain over policy. Rational voters hold them accountable through retrospective voting....

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The effects of fiscal institutions on public finance : a survey of the empirical evidence

Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2001

This paper surveys the empirical research on fiscal institutions of the last three decades. The main results are: (i) Constitutional or statutory fiscal limitations have in most cases proved to be effective in cutting down public expenditure, revenue, and debt. (ii) Budgetary proce-dures matter...

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Budget referendums and government spending : evidence from Swiss

Feld, Lars P.; Matsusaka, John G. - 2000

New government spending must be approved by a referendum of citizens in many Swiss cantons. This decisionmaking procedure seems like a simple way to address citizen-legislator agency problems, but little systematic evidence is available concerning its effect on spending outcomes. We estimate...

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Political competition and convergence to fundamentals : with application to the political business cycle and the size of government

Ferris, John Stephen (contributor); … - 2006

We address the problem of how to investigate whether economics, or politics, or both, matter in the explanation of public policy. The problem is first posed in a particular context by uncovering a political business cycle (using Canadian data for 130 years) and by taking up the challenge to make...

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