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Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction

Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2021

correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tame bureaucracy …

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Does Money Make People Right-Wing and Inegalitarian? A Longitudinal Study of Lottery Winners

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2014

The causes of people's political attitudes are largely unknown. We study this issue by exploiting longitudinal data on lottery winners. Comparing people before and after a lottery windfall, we show that winners tend to switch towards support for a right-wing political party and to become less...

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Daughters and Left-Wing Voting

Oswald, Andrew J.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2021

This paper provides evidence that daughters make people more left-wing. Having sons, by contrast, makes them more right-wing. Parents, politicians and voters are probably not aware of this phenomenon - nor are social scientists. The paper discusses its economic and evolutionary roots. It also...

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Efficient and Inefficient Welfare States

Algan, Yann - 2011

This paper shows that cross country differences in the generosity and the quality of the welfare state are associated with differences in the trustworthiness of their citizens. We show that generous, transparent and efficient welfare states in Scandinavian countries are based on the civicness of...

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Perception of Corruption and Public Support for Redistribution in Latin America

Hauk, Esther - 2017

corruption perceptions, and preferences for redistribution in Latin America. Our empirical study is guided by a theoretical model … which introduces taxes into Foellmi and Oechslin's (2007) general equilibrium model of non-collusive corruption. In this … model perceived corruption influences people's preferences for redistribution through two channels. On the one hand it …

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Is Being 'Soft on Crime' the Solution to Rising Crime Rates? Evidence from Germany

Entorf, Horst; Spengler, Hannes - 2021

Based on a theoretical framework on informal, custodial and non-custodial sentencing, the paper provides econometric tests on the effectiveness of police, public prosecution and courts. Using a unique dataset covering German states for the period 1977-2001, a comprehensive system of criminal...

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Tacit Lobbying Agreements : An Experimental Study

Großer, Jens - 2011

We experimentally study the common wisdom that money buys political influence. In the game, one lobbyist has the opportunity to influence redistributive tax policies in her favor by transferring money to two competing candidates. The success of the lobbying investment depends on whether or not...

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Schooling and Voter Turnout : Is There an American Exception?

Chevalier, Arnaud - 2012

One of the most consistent findings in studies of electoral behaviour is that individuals with higher education have a greater propensity to vote. The nature of this relationship is much debated, with US studies generally finding evidence of a causal relationship, while European studies...

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Persuasive Agenda-Setting : Rodrigo Duterte's Inauguration Speech and Drugs in the Philippines

Jetter, Michael - 2020

Can democratically elected politicians persuade their constituents to alter policy priorities? With little empirical support for this hypothesis to date, we propose that Rodrigo Duterte's inauguration speech on June 30, 2016 systematically shifted the Filipinos' policy agenda toward prioritizing...

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The Political Cost of Being Soft on Crime : Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Drago, Francesco - 2017

We provide evidence about voters' response to crime control policies. We exploit a natural experiment arising from the Italian 2006 collective pardon releasing about one third of the prison population. The pardon created idiosyncratic incentives to recidivate across released individuals and...

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