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Regional Variations in the Brexit Vote : Causes and Potential Consequences

Blackaby, David - 2020

There were large regional differentials in the Brexit vote. Most notably, the percentage voting to leave the EU ranged from 38% in Scotland and 40% in London to 59% in the East and West Midlands. Turnout also varied across Britain, from a low of 67% in Scotland to 77% in the South East and South...

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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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Regional Variations in Attitudes Towards Refugees : Evidence from Great Britain

Crawley, Heaven - 2013

This paper examines changes in public attitudes towards refugees across Britain over almost three decades using data from British Social Attitudes Surveys. It therefore covers the period when immigration as a whole has increased and the number of asylum applications reached their highest levels....

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The Right Look : Conservative Politicians Look Better and Their Voters Reward it

Berggren, Niclas - 2011

Previous research has established that good-looking political candidates win more votes. We extend this line of research by examining differences between parties on the left and on the right of the political spectrum. Our study combines data on personal votes in real elections with a web survey...

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Time to Vote?

Gibson, John - 2011

Despite the centrality of voting costs to the paradox of voting, little effort has been made to accurately measure these costs outside of a few spatially limited case studies. In this paper, we apply Geographic Information Systems (GIS) tools to validated national election survey data from New...

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Socio-Spatial Transformations, Suburbanisation, and Voting Behaviour in the Vilnius Urban Region

Ubarevičienė, Rūta - 2012

landscape in the Vilnius urban region. The region surrounding Vilnius city is dominated by Polish identity residents while those … who suburbanise into the region are mainly ethnic Lithuanians. This may lead to potential tension and conflicts in the … region which may find its expression in the voting behaviour of residents of the region. Using data from the 1997 and 2011 …

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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...

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Conditional Cash Transfers, Political Participation, and Voting Behavior

Baez, Javier - 2012

This paper estimates the effect of enrollment in a large scale anti-poverty program in Colombia, Familias en Acción (FA), on intent to vote, turnout and electoral choice. For identification we use discontinuities in program eligibility and variation in program enrollment across voting booths....

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Does Immigration into Their Neighborhoods Incline Voters Toward the Extreme Right? The Case of the Freedom Party of Austria

Halla, Martin - 2012

This paper explores one potentially important channel through which immigration may drive support for extreme right-wing parties: the presence of immigrants in one's neighborhood. We study the case of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). Under the leadership of Jörg Haider, this party increased...

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E-Lections : Voting Behavior and the Internet

Falck, Oliver - 2012

This paper analyses the effect of information disseminated by the Internet on voting behavior. We address endogeneity in Internet availability by exploiting regional and technological peculiarities of the preexisting voice telephony network that hinder the roll-out of fixed-line broadband...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106295

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