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What happens if national legal laws or enforcements and social norms are no longer able to directly regulate individual behaviour? According to our knowledge, not much empirical evidence has emerged answering such a seemingly simple question. The challenge is to distinguish between the effects...
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Recent literature emphasizes the importance of independent media for beneficial political, economic and social outcomes …. I investigate how media consumers react to state ownership of TV stations and the regulation and financing of these …
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We examine the nature of stated subjective probabilities in a complex, evolving context in which true event probabilities are not within subjects' explicit information set. Specifically, we collect information on subjective expectations in a car race wherein participants must bet on a particular...
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media. As yet, however, no formal model has been built based on this issue and only very little empirical research has been … between terrorists and the media. The model has features of a common-interest-game and results in multiple equilibria. After a … incidents and terror fatalities data, it is shown that media attention and terrorism do mutually Granger cause each other, as …
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This paper empirically explores the link between mass media coverage of migration and immigration worries. Using … detailed data on media coverage in Germany, we show that the amount of media reports regarding migration issues is positively …-variant individual control variables and individual fixed-effects. We employ media spillovers from the neighboring country of Switzerland …
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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 the first and second ballot of the election, the...
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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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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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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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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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