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Voting for direct democracy : evidence from a unique popular initiative in Bavaria
Arnold, Felix; Freier, Ronny; Pallauf, Magdalena; … - 2014
allows us to focus on revealed preferences for direct democracy and to identify factors which explain this preference …. Empirical results suggests support for direct democracy is rather related to dissatisfaction with representative democracy in … general than with an elected governing party. …
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The Cliometrics of International Migration : A Survey
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2010
migrations. Here I focus on the period 1850 to 1940 and chiefly on migration from Europe to the New World. The survey is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144380
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Escaping from Hunger Before WW1 : Nutrition and Living Standards in Western Europe and USA in the Late Nineteenth Century
Gazeley, Ian - 2017
We estimate calories available to workers' households in the USA, Belgium, Britain, France and Germany in 1890/1. We employ data from the United States Commissioner of Labor survey (see Haines, 1979) of workers in key export industries. We estimate that households in the USA, on average, had...
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Generationen- oder Parteienkonflikt? : eine empirische Analyse der deutschen Hochschulausgaben
Oberndorfer, Ulrich (contributor);  … - 2006
In diesem Beitrag wird auf der Basis von Paneldaten für die westdeutschen Bundesländer untersucht, ob und in welchem Maße der demographische Wandel sowie die unterschiedlichen politischen Parteienkonstellationen die Hochschulausgaben auf Länderebene beeinflussen. Wir finden empirische...
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Divided government versus incumbency externality effect : quasi-experimental evidence on multiple voting decisions
Ade, Florian; Freier, Ronny - 2011
rely on a regression discontinuity design focusing on close election outcomes. We find that the party of the mayor receives … council elections are held simultaneously. With regard to higher level elections, we find no effect for the party identity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009426691
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Do absolute majorities spend less? : evidence from Germany
Freier, Ronny; Odendahl, Christian - 2012
the case. Using a new method to detect close election outcomes in multi-party systems, we isolate truly exogenous … majority of his own party gains the most, but the party itself does not. -- Fiscal spending ; local election ; absolute …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009664450
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A decision heuristic for party identification : new British and German data and a new understanding for a classic concept
Zuckerman, Alan S.; Brynin, Malcolm - 2001
The concept party identification lies at the heart of much research on political preferences and behavior in …-Economic Panel Survey (1984-1998), we offer a fresh approach to the concept. Party identification is a stance that people take … negative stance towards one of the parties and a positive stance towards the other major party. Of these, about half display …
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The partisan effects of voter turnout : how conservatives profit from rainy election days
Arnold, Felix; Freier, Ronny - 2015 - This version: March 23, 2015
In this short note, we use data from different elections in the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia between 1975 and 2010 to show that the social democrats generally profit from higher voter turnout at the expense of the conservatives. We deal with the endogeneity of voter turnout by using...
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Parties matter in allocating expenditures : evidence from Germany
Potrafke, Niklas (contributor) - 2006
I test if parties matter with respect to the allocation of public expenditures in Germany. Considering the allocation of rights and duties due to the federal structure, two econometric models are estimated. First, a SURE model analyses spending at the federal level for the period from 1950 to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003400048
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Job Loss Fears and (Extremist) Party Identification : First Evidence from Panel Data
Geishecker, Ingo - 2012
individuals' party identification. Consistent with the deprivation theory, we find strong and robust evidence that subjective job …
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