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The consequences of hosting asylum seekers for citizens' policy preferences
Zimmermann, Severin; Stutzer, Alois - 2021
Asylum migration is a major societal challenge in the Western world affecting residents' policy preferences. We analyze the effects of newly hosting asylum seekers in a given municipality on local citizens' preferences in terms of migratory and redistributive policies as well as of support or...
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What determines preferences for an electoral system? : evidence from a binding referendum
Riambau, Guillem; Stillman, Steven; Boe-Gibson, Geua - 2017
of voters. In 1993, New Zealand had a binding electoral referendum on the same day as the general election where voters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731918
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Overstrained citizens? : the number of ballot propositions and the quality of the decision process in direct democracy
Stutzer, Alois; Baltensperger, Michael; Meier, Armando N. - 2019
We study how the number of ballot propositions affects the quality of decision making in direct democracy, as reflected … in citizens' knowledge, voting behavior, and attitudes toward democracy. Using three comprehensive data sets from … federal direct democracy. In the medium to longer term, more federal propositions on the ballot rather relate to higher …
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When is voting optimal?
Ben-Yashar, Ruth; Danziger, Leif - 2014
We consider a framework where the optimal decision rule determining the collective choice depends in a simple way on the decision makers' posterior probabilities of a particular state of nature. Nevertheless, voting is generally an inefficient way to make collective choices and this paper sheds...
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Income contingency and the electorate's support for tuition
Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2022
We show that the electorate's preferences for using tuition to finance higher education strongly depend on the design of the payment scheme. In representative surveys of the German electorate (N18,000), experimentally replacing regular upfront by deferred income-contingent payments increases...
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Voting power and survival : the case of a ruling party
Jelnov, Artyom; Jelnov, Pavel - 2019
In this article, we empirically study the survival of the ruling party in parliamentary democracies using a hazard rate model. We define survival of a crisis as being successful in a critical vote in the parliament. We develop a general probabilistic model of political crises and test it...
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Immigrant voters, taxation and the size of the welfare state
Chevalier, Arnaud; Elsner, Benjamin; Lichter, Andreas; … - 2018
This paper studies the impact of immigration on public policy setting. As a natural experiment, we exploit the sudden arrival of eight million forced migrants in West Germany after World War II. These migrants were on average poorer than the West German population, but unlike most international...
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Does trade exposure explain anti-globalization votes?
Bouët, Antoine; Edo, Anthony; Emlinger, Charlotte - 2024
We investigate the local effects of trade exposure and immigration on voting behavior in France from 1988 to 2022. We use the content of each candidate's manifesto to construct an anti-globalization voting index for each French presidential election. This index shows a significant increase in...
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Factor shares, redistribution and growth in a captured democracy
Vindigni, Andrea - 2024
benchmark, mutatis mutandis. In the end, full convergence is established, from a pure democracy ruled through the de jure power …
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How transparency kills information aggregation : theory and experiment
Fehrler, Sebastian; Hughes, Niall - 2015
under secrecy. This occurs despite subjects revealing more information under transparency than theory predicts. …
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