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

Boockmann, Bernhard - 2002

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Delegation and recruitment in organizations: The slippery slope to "bad" leadership

Çakır, Selcen; Matakos, Konstantinos; Tukiainen, Janne - 2022

We construct a dynamic model of two-sided sorting in labor markets with multi-dimensional agent and firm heterogeneity. We apply it to study optimal party structure and the decision of how (de)centralized candidate recruitment should be. Parties are non-unitary actors and compete at the local...

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Selfish and Prospective. Theory and Evidence of Pocketbook Voting

Elinder, Mikael; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2008

We present and test a theory of prospective and retrospective pocketbook voting. Focusing on two large reforms in … Sweden, we establish a causal chain from policies to sizeable individual gains and losses and then to voting. The Social …-in-differences strategy for identification. We find clear evidence of prospective pocketbook voting. Voters respond to campaign promises but …

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Returns to office in national and local politics

Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Poutvaara, Panu; Tervio, Marko - 2013

We study the returns to political office using data from Finnish parliamentary elections in 1970-2007 and municipal elections in 1996-2008. The discontinuity of electoral outcomes in individual candidate votes allows us to estimate the causal effect of being electedon subsequent income. Getting...

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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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Does demography determine democratic attitudes?

Kotschy, Rainer; Sunde, Uwe - 2022

This paper presents new evidence on how demography affects democratic attitudes in Western democracies. Using individual survey responses, the empirical analysis disentangles age from cohort patterns and other contemporaneous economic and political influences that shape democratic attitudes. The...

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Delegation and recruitment in organizations : the slippery slope to "bad" leadership

Çakır, Selcen; Matakos, Konstantinos; Tukiainen, Janne - 2022

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Political consequences of (consumer) debt relief

Aidt, Toke; Asatryan, Zareh; Badalyan, Lusine - 2024 - This version: March 6, 2024

Many governments operate consumer debt relief programs, often timed to match the election cycle, but their political effects are not well understood. We ask if debt relief can influence elections in democracies. Our motivating exercise is the Biden administration’s promise to relieve student...

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