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To swing or not to swing: An assessment of age and political cynicism of swing voting

Proulx, Damon; Savage, David; Stadelmann, David; … - 2021

The empirical question of voting preferences and how these may change (swing) is yet to be answered, as there is little first-hand microeconomic evidence on swing voting. We focus on the interactions between voters' age and political cynicism. Towards this end, we apply a stated and revealed...

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"It's the Challenger, Stupid!": Elections and the Theory of Rank-Order Tournaments

Funk, Michael; Eichenberger, Reiner - 2007

Democratic elections look very much like a contest where voters have to compare the candidates according to an ordinal … tournament models to analyse elections. The main difference between tournaments in a firm and election tournaments is a …

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Rethinking Public Auditing Institutions: Empirical Evidence from Swiss Municipalities

Schelker, Mark; Eichenberger, Reiner - 2008

In the economic literature various political institutions designed to control the government have been analyzed. However, an important institution has been neglected so far: independent auditing institutions with an extended mandate to analyze the budget draft and individual policy proposals. We...

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Electoral turnout during states of emergency and effects on incumbent vote share

Frank, Marco; Stadelmann, David; Torgler, Benno - 2020

In March 2020, the second ballot of local elections in the German state of Bavaria was held under an official state of … emergency due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Bavarian mayors are elected by majority rule in two-round (runoff) elections. Between … from previous elections. The state of emergency led to an increase in turnout of 10 percentage points. This increase in …

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The trade-off between deepening and broadening of democracy: Lessons from youth enfranchisement

Koukal, Anna Maria; Schafer, Patricia; Eichenberger, Reiner - 2020

Broadening democracy by lowering the voting age is on the political agenda in many democratic societies. Previous suffrage extensions suggest that there are systematic differences between what parliaments decide and what voters want with respect to enfranchisement of new groups. This paper...

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Political competition and legislative shirking in roll-call votes: Evidence from Germany for 1953-2017

Frank, Marco; Stadelmann, David - 2020

We analyze the impact of elected competitors from the same constituency on legislative shirking in the German Bundestag from 1953 to 2017. The German electoral system ensures that there is always at least one federal legislator per constituency with a varying number of elected competitors from...

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Direct Democracy: Designing a Living Constitution

Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2003

A crucial aspect of constitutional design is the provision of rules on how a constitution is to be amended. If procedures for constitutional amendment are very restrictive, changes will take place outside the constitution. These changes are likely to be against the citizens' interests and their...

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Spatial Spillovers in Metropolitan Areas: Evidence from Swiss Communes

Schaltegger, Christoph A.; Zemp, Simon - 2003

This paper investigates spatial spillovers in local spending decisions by using panel data of the Swiss communes in the canton of Lucerne during the 1990s. Due to the geographical fragmentation with a major central city and some 100 suburban communes within a distance from 4 to 55 kilometers to...

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The Role of Direct Democracy and Federalism in Local Power

Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2004

Alienation to politics weakens political competition and can undermine the acceptance and legitimacy of democracy as a political system. Governance and representation problems at the local level cause part of citizens' lack of power and political alienation. Citizens have local power if they can...

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Making International Organizations More Democratic

Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - 2004

World governance today is characterized by international organizations lacking democratic legitimacy and control by the citizens they claim to represent. They are also criticized for being inefficient. This leads to violent protests and to NGOs having great influence. To address these problems,...

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