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Direct democracy, political delegation, and responsibility substitution

Prato, Carlo; Strulovici, Bruno - 2010

Can direct democracy provisions improve welfare over pure representative democracy? This paper studies how such provisions affect politicians' incentives and selection. While direct democracy allows citizens to correct politicians' mistakes, it also reduces the incentives of elected...

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A micro-foundation for non-deterministic contests of the logit form

Dahm, Matthias; Porteiro, Nicolás - 2005

In models of non-deterministic contest, players exert irreversible effort in order to increase their probability of winning a prize. The most prominent functional form of the win probability in the literature is the so-called logit" contest success function. We provide a simple micro-foundation...

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Mali Disiplin ve Büyüme: Türkiye Deneyimi

Özatay, Fatih - 2012

2001 krizinden sonra 2007'ye kadar Türkiye ekonomisi uzun dönem ortalamasının çok üzerinde büyüdü. Üstelik bu büyüme hızı benzer ülkelerin büyüme hızlarının da üzerinde gerçekleşti. Aynı dönemde Türkiye mali disipline dayanan bir ekonomik programı uygulamaya koydu. Bu...

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The effects of income and fare variation on the demand for bus transit services in Brazil

Ribeiro de Carvalho, Carlos Henrique; Pereira, Rafael … - 2015

The public policies on mass transit and other economic policies have been unable to avoid increasing mass transit costs and urban bus fares, which places a burden on a majority of the population depending on public transit. This study analyzes the variations in urban bus fares and households...

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From friends to foes: National identity and collaboration in diverse teams

Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2019

conflict makes national diversity more salient among existing and potential team members. I exploit this natural experiment to …, the world's largest hosting platform for software projects, I estimate the causal impacts of a political conflict that … burst out between Russia and Ukraine in 2014. I find that the conflict strongly reduced online cooperation between Russian …

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Mimicking the Opposition: Bismarck's Welfare State and the Rise of the Socialists

Kersting, Felix - 2023

This paper examines the consequences of a government mimicking the policy of its competitor by studying the introduction of the welfare state in 19th century Germany. The reform conducted by the conservative government targeted blue-collar workers and aimed to reduce the success of the socialist...

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Existence and computation of pure-strategy equilibria in models of legislative bargaining with reconsideration

Diermeier, Daniel; Fong, Pohan - 2008

Diermeier and Fong (2008a) recently proposed a legislative bargaining model with reconsideration in the context of a distributive policy environment. In this paper we prove general existence and necessary conditions for pure-strategy stationary equilibria for any finite policy space and...

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Dynamic collective choice with endogenous status quo

Dziuda, Wioletta; Loeper, Antoine - 2012

status quo exacerbates the players' conflict of interest and decreases the responsiveness of the bargaining outcome to the …

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Income Misperception and Populism

Albers, Thilo Nils Hendrik; Kersting, Felix; Kosse, Fabian - 2022

We propose that false beliefs about the own current economic status are an important factor for explaining populist attitudes. Along with the subjects' receptiveness to right-wing populism, we elicit their perceived relative income positions in a representative survey of German households. We...

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Persistence and activation of right-wing political ideology

Cantoni, Davide; Hagemeister, Felix; Westcott, Mark - 2019

We argue that a long-run cultural persistence of right-wing ideology can explain the recent rise of right-wing populism. Shifts in the supply of party platforms can interact with this existing demand, and give rise to patterns of historical persistence. We study the context of Germany in the...

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