This paper explores whether professional macroeconomic forecasters manipulate their forecasts to influence voting …

We study whether national leaders' foreign education influences their foreign policy, measured by voting behavior at … voting coincidence. To test this theory we make use of data on the educational background of 831 leaders and the voting …. We identify the causal effect of "allegiance" by investigating the differential effect of foreign education on voting in …

We compiled data on all United Nations General Assembly resolutions on which voting took place between January 1990 and … model of behavioral political economy that includes decoy voting, vanity of autocrats, and a Schelling focal point for …

the majority increased by one percentage point, the likelihood of voting in favour of same-sex marriage decreased by …

on the EU policies has nevertheless been limited. This is due not only to the arcane voting rules within the EU, but also …, however, they have to coordinate their voting and become a more coherent voting group than they are now. -- European Union … ; voting system ; European council ; new member states …

I investigate minority votes in the German Council of Economic Experts. The dataset contains information on the voting … behavior of the council members over the period 1971-2011. The results show that the best predictor of minority voting is being … against the majority opinion of the German Council of Economic Experts. This voting pattern indicates that the channel of …

voting power indices, is proposed, and the different measures are compared using a sample of large listed German firms. The …