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Incumbency, party identity and governmental lead : evidence for heterogeneous incumbency effects for Germany
Ade, Florian; Freier, Ronny; Odendahl, Christian - 2011
Do incumbents in an election have an advantage, and if so, are these advantages heterogeneous across parties or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580347
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Divided government versus incumbency externality effect : quasi-experimental evidence on multiple voting decisions
Ade, Florian; Freier, Ronny - 2011
town council election?; (2) Does this partisan identity influence in ensuing higher level elections?; and (3) Do voters … condition their vote for the mayor on the result of the last council election? We collected a unique data set for Germany in … which we link election results for different political institutions at the municipal level. To identify causal effects, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009426691
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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
deal with the endogeneity of voter turnout by using election day rain as an instrumental variable. Our particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010501266
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Overlapping political budget cycles in the legislative and the executive
Foremny, Dirk; Freier, Ronny; Moessinger, Marc-Daniel; … - 2014
We advance the literature on political budget cycles by testing separately for cycles in expenditures for elections in the legislative and the executive. Using municipal data, we can separately identify these cycles and account for general year effects. For the executive branch, we show that it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010438016
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Strategic Voting Decisions in the Absence of Democratic Experience and Strong Party Ties : A Natural Experiment in the 1990 German Unification Elections
Leiter, Debra Lynn - 2010
democratic experience and strong party ties. Utilizing the 1990 German Unification Election Study, I examine a natural experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013145446
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Elections and Happiness : The Effect of Electoral Institutions on Life Satisfaction
Adams, Alex - 2010
Early democratic theorists argued that one purpose of a democratic government is to increase the happiness of its citizens. However, all democracies are not equal. Some democracies through their institutional arrangements create broader representation to their citizens, while others reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013145461