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Backlash in Attitudes after the Election of Extreme Political Parties
Carlsson, Magnus - 2018
from the right and one from the left, using panel data from 290 municipal election districts. To identify causal effects … incumbency advantage in the next election. Exploring possible mechanisms, we find evidence that when the anti-immigrant party … wins a marginal seat, they experience higher levels of politician turnover before the next election and receive negative …
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The Effect of Far Right Parties on the Location Choice of Immigrants : Evidence from Lega Nord Mayors
Bracco, Emanuele - 2017
narrow margins of victory in a Regression Discontinuity framework. The election of Lega Nord mayor discourages immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960288
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Terrorism, Political Opinions, and Election Outcomes : Evidence from Europe
Peri, Giovanni - 2020
comprehensive, multi-country examination of the effects of terror attacks on political opinions and election outcomes. The results …
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Returns to Office in National and Local Politics
Kotakorpi, Kaisa - 2016
system. We apply the method to the Finnish proportional open list system. Being elected to parliament increases annual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987691
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Dancing with the Populist : New Parties, Electoral Rules and Italian Municipal Elections
Bordignon, Massimo; Colussi, Tommaso - 2021
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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Job Loss Fears and (Extremist) Party Identification : First Evidence from Panel Data
Geishecker, Ingo - 2012
There is a large body of literature analyzing the relationship between objective economic conditions and voting behavior, but there is very little evidence of how perceived economic insecurity impacts on political preferences. Using seventeen years of household panel data from the German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097869
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Demand for Redistribution, Support for the Welfare State, and Party Identification in Austria
Kuhn, Andreas - 2009
This paper describes subjective wage inequality and the demand for redistribution in Austria using individuals' estimates of occupational wages from the International Social Survey Program. Although these estimates differ widely across individuals, the data clearly show that most individuals...
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Immigration to the U.S : A Problem for the Republicans or the Democrats?
Mayda, Anna Maria - 2016
Survey merged with election data – and addresses the endogeneity of immigrant flows using a novel set of instruments. On … average across election types, immigration to the U.S. has a significant and negative impact on the Republican vote share …
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Intergenerational Correlations of Extreme Right-Wing Party Preferences and Attitudes Toward Immigration
Avdeenko, Alexandra - 2015
This study analyzes the importance of parental socialization on the development of children's far right-wing preferences and attitudes towards immigration. Using longitudinal data from Germany, our intergenerational estimates suggest that the strongest and most important predictor for young...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014044
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The Impact of Incumbency on Turnout : Evidence from Italian Municipalities
De Benedetto, Marco Alberto - 2013
We analyze how having an incumbent among candidates affects electoral turnout. We use a rich data set providing information on the electoral results of Italian municipal elections over the period 1993-2011. Endogeneity issues are handled through an instrumental variable approach using the mayor...
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