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Does a change of government influence compliance with international agreements? : empirical evidence for the NATO two percent target

Blum, Johannes; Potrafke, Niklas - 2019

We examine whether changes of government influence compliance with international agreements. We investigate compliance with the NATO two percent target to which all NATO countries committed themselves during the NATO summit in Wales in 2014. The dataset includes the military expenditure by NATO...

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The political economy of negotiating international carbon markets

Arvaniti, Maria; Habla, Wolfgang - 2020 - This version: April 2020

International carbon markets are frequently propagated as an efficient instrument for reducing CO2 emissions. We argue that such markets, despite their desirable efficiency properties, might not be in the best interest of governments who are guided by strategic considerations in negotiations. We...

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Elections and government efficiency

Dorn, Florian - 2021

Politicians are expected to influence policy outcomes in a way to gain electoral advantage. There is, however, a pending question whether efficiency in the provision of public goods and services is affected by strategic behavior. I examine how electoral cycles influence local government...

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Mixed motives : an empirical analysis of ILO roll-call votes

Boockmann, Bernhard - 2002

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Does political uncertainty influence firm owners' business perceptions?

Riem, Marina - 2016

Using microdata that serve as the foundation of the ifo Business Climate Index, Germany's leading business cycle indicator, I examine whether political uncertainty influences how firm owners perceive their present state and future development of business. I use state election months as...

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Just hire your spouse! : evidence from a political scandal in Bavaria

Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - 2014

We investigate a case of political favoritism. Some members of the Bavarian parliament hired relatives as office employees who were paid using taxpayers' money. The family scandal was a hot issue in the German media because of the upcoming state and federal elections. We examine whether being...

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Personality traits and cognitive ability in political selection

Jokela, Markus; Meriläinen, Jaakko; Tukiainen, Janne; … - 2023 - February 2023 (first version July 2022, second version August 2022)

We present the first comprehensive evidence on the role of cognitive ability and personality traits in the selection of electoral candidates and election of politicians. Using unique data that combine population registers and election statistics from local government elections in Finland with...

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Self-persuasion : evidence from field experiments at international debating competitions

Schwardmann, Peter; Tripodi, Egon; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2021

Laboratory evidence shows that when people have to argue for a given position, they persuade themselves about the position’s factual and moral superiority. Such self-persuasion limits the potential of communication to resolve conflict and reduce polarization. We test for this phenomenon in a...

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Autocrats in the United Nations General Assembly : a test of the decoy voting hypothesis

Mosler, Martin - 2020

I empirically examine whether autocratic governments use decoy voting in the United Nations General Assembly to hide … primarily deal with the State of Israel, with an estimated decline in voting alignment of 3.6 percentage points or 20 percent of … the only Jewish-majority state to fill the voting agenda and deflect attention from their regimes. …

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Electoral cycles, partisan effects and U.S. naturalization policies

Drometer, Marcus; Méango, Romuald - 2017

Using a panel of naturalizations in U.S. states from 1965 to 2012, we empirically analyze the impact of elections on naturalization policy. Our results indicate that naturalization policy is (partly) driven by national elections: there are more naturalizations in presidential election years and...

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