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World democracies widely differ in electoral rules, as well as in legislative, executive or legal institutions. Different institutional environments induce different mappings from electoral outcomes to the distribution of power. We explore how these mappings affect voters' participation to an...
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party voting with a classification of each party's political agenda on a scale of their "nationalistic" attitudes over 28 …
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We propose a new game theoretic approach to modeling large elections that overcomes the "paradox of voting" in a costly voting framework, without reliance on the assumption of ad hoc preferences for voting. The key innovation that we propose is the adoption of a "smooth" policy rule under which...
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individuals' party identification. Consistent with the deprivation theory, we find strong and robust evidence that subjective job …
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-run support for the Democratic party by 10 percentage points. We further find that the long-run shift toward the Democratic party …
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Using data from 1869 to 1928, we estimate the effect of party control of state governments on the entry, exit … party control of the governorship and state legislatures in a differences-in-differences design. We exploit close … reveals evidence that the party in power affects the partisan composition of the press. Our confidence intervals rule out …
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