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More than words: leaders' speech and risky behavior during a pandemic
Ajzenman, Nicolas; Cavalcanti, Tiago; Mata, Daniel da - 2021
localities with higher media penetration levels, active Twitter accounts, and a larger proportion of Evangelical Christians, a …
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Managing refugee protection crises: policy lessons from economics and political science
Hangartner, Dominik; Sarvimäki, Matti; Spirig, Judith - 2021
We review and interpret research on the economic and political effects of receiving asylum seekers and refugees in developed countries, with a particular focus on the 2015 European refugee protection crisis and its aftermath. In the first part of the paper, we examine the consequences of...
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Women's political representation and intimate partner violence
Anukriti, S; Erten, Bilge; Mukherjee, Priya - 2022
We estimate the impact of female leaders on intimate partner violence experienced by women in districts from which they are elected. Exposure to female leaders in state legislatures in India increases the likelihood that female constituents in rural areas report experiencing physical violence...
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What we teach about race and gender : representation in images and text of children's books
Adukia, Anjali; Eble, Alex; Harrison, Emileigh; … - 2023
Books shape how children learn about society and norms, in part through representation of different characters. We … analysis methods, to measure the representation of skin color, race, gender, and age in award-winning children's books widely … of, and demand for, books with different levels of representation to better understand the economic behavior that may …
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Worker representatives
Budde, Julian; Dohmen, Thomas; Jäger, Simon; Trenkle, Simon - 2024
We study the descriptive and substantive representation of workers through worker representatives, focusing on the …
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Understanding the origins of populist political parties and the role of external shocks
Levi, Eugenio; Sin, Isabelle; Stillman, Steven - 2021
in explaining the rise of populism in NZ. Understanding how these shocks led to the development of NZF is particularly … relevant for thinking about how populism has been extending its reach in the 2010s. …
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Who voted for Trump? : populism and social capital
Giuliano, Paola; Wacziarg, Romain - 2020
We argue that low levels of social capital are conducive to the electoral success of populist movements. Using a variety of data sources for the 2016 US Presidential election at the county and individual levels, we show that social capital, measured either by the density of memberships in civic,...
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Dancing with the populist: new parties, electoral rules and Italian municipal elections
Bordignon, Massimo; Colussi, Tommaso - 2020
This paper develops a theoretical framework that makes predictions on (a) the conditions under which a populist party decides to run and the policy position it takes and (b) voters' response under different electoral systems. We test these predictions using data on Italian municipal elections...
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Anti‐elite politics and emotional reactions to socio‐economic problems : experimental evidence on "pocketbook anger" from France, Germany, and the United States
Marx, Paul - 2019
Many observers have noticed the importance of anger in contemporary politics, particularly with reference to populism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012006185
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Populism, political risk and the economy : lessons from Italy
Balduzzi, Pierluigi; Brancati, Emanuele; Brianti, Marco; … - 2020
We study the effects on financial markets and real economic activity of changes in risk related to political events and policy announcements in Italy during the 2013-2019 period that saw the rise to power of populist parties. We focus on events that have implications for budgetary policy, debt...
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