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On the Political Economy of Social Security and Public Education

Poutvaara, Panu - 2004

This paper analyzes simultaneous voting on the wage tax rate and investment in public education with three overlapping … benefits. The presence of productivity differences introduces a time-consistency problem with repeated voting. This can be …

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Competing approaches to forecasting elections: economic models, opinion polling and prediction markets

Leigh, Andrew; Wolfers, Justin - 2006

. While the evidence for economic voting has historically been weak for Australia, the 2004 election suggests an increasingly …

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Daughters and left-wing voting

Oswald, Andrew J.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2006

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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Rational choice and voter turnout: Evidence from union representation elections

Farber, Henry S. - 2010

receive utility from the act of voting. However, this leaves open the question of whether or not there is a significant margin … consideration of the likelihood that they will be pivotal. Among the remainder, the probability of voting is related to variables …

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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; Wagner, Alexander F.; Zweimüller, Josef - 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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Vote-buying and reciprocity

Finan, Frederico S.; Schechter, Laura - 2011

While vote-buying is common, little is known about how politicians determine who to target. We argue that vote-buying can be sustained by an internalized norm of reciprocity. Receiving money engenders feelings of obligation. Combining survey data on vote-buying with an experiment-based measure...

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Sozioökonomische Determinanten extremistischer Wahlerfolge in Deutschland: Das Beispiel der Europawahlen 1994 und 1999

Rotte, Ralph; Steininger, Martin - 2000

Empirical research on the determinants of right and left-wing extremist election successes is still dominated by descriptive statistical methods. The existing literature in political economy and political science mainly relies on interviews and survey results as well as on qualitative analyses...

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Did political constraints bind during transition? Evidence from Czech elections 1990 - 2002

Doyle, Orla; Walsh, Patrick Paul - 2005

political constraints. In this paper we empirically test whether the winners and losers of economic reform determined voting … pro-reform and communist parties driven by prospective voting based on initial conditions in 1990. As a result, we show … that regional unemployment rates in 2002 are good predictors of regional voting patterns in 1990. …

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Partisan impacts on the economy: evidence from prediction markets and close elections

Snowberg, Erik; Wolfers, Justin; Zitzewitz, Eric - 2006

Political economists interested in discerning the effects of election outcomes on the economy have been hampered by the problem that economic outcomes also influence elections. We sidestep these problems by analyzing movements in economic indicators caused by clearly exogenous changes in...

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Impact of the 1999 earthquakes on the outcome of the 2002 parliamentary election in Turkey

Akarca, Ali T.; Tansel, Aysit - 2008

The two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999, not only caused enormous amounts of death, destruction and suffering, but also exposed rampant government corruption involving construction and zoning code violations. The incompetence shown by the government in providing...

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