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What Does the Public Know about Economic Policy, and How Does It Know It?
Blinder, Alan S.; Krueger, Alan B. - 2004
Public opinion influences politicians, and therefore influences public policy decisions. What are the roles of self-interest, knowledge, and ideology in public opinion formation? And how do people learn about economic issues? Using a new, specially-designed survey, we find that most respondents...
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The struggle for Palestinian hearts and minds: violence and public opinion in the second intifada
Jaeger, David A.; Klor, Esteban F.; Miaari, Sami H.; … - 2008
This paper examines how violence in the Second Intifada influences Palestinian public opinion. Using micro data from a series of opinion polls linked to data on fatalities, we find that Israeli violence against Palestinians leads them to support more radical factions and more radical attitudes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277711
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Trespassing the threshold of relevance: Media exposure and opinion polls of the Sweden democrats, 2006-2010
Bevelander, Pieter; Hellström, Anders - 2011
In September 2010 the anti-immigration party, the Sweden Democrats (SD), crossed the electoral threshold to the Swedish parliament (Riksdagen) for the first time with 5.7 percent of the total votes. The aim of this article is to analyze the effect of the media exposure on fluctuations in opinion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280695
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Supply and Demand, Allocation and Wage Inequality: An International Comparison
Dupuy, Arnaud; Borghans, Lex - 2003
In this paper, we develop an allocation model of workers differentiated by their field of study to test whether … model explicitly takes into account the effects of supply and demand shifts on the allocation structure to disentangle …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261618
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Decentralization, happiness and the perception of institutions
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2011
Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to greater personal happiness. The analysis uses … the level of satisfaction with political and economic institutions and with the education and health systems, whereas the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278374
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Partner (dis)agreement on moving desires and the subsequent moving behaviour of couples
Coulter, Rory; van Ham, Maarten; Feijten, Peteke - 2011
residential mobility relate moving behaviour to the housing and neighbourhood satisfaction and pre-move thoughts of individuals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278495
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Evidence for a 'midlife crisis' in great apes consistent with the U-shape in human well-being
Weiss, Alexander; King, James E.; Inoue-Murayama, Miho; … - 2012
Recently, economists and behavioral scientists have studied the pattern of human well-being over the lifespan. In dozens of countries, and for a large range of well-being measures, including happiness and mental health, well-being is high in youth, falls to a nadir in midlife, and rises again in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289973
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Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung und Demokratie: ist Demokratie ein Wohlstandsmotor oder ein Wohlstandsprodukt?
Sunde, Uwe - 2006
relationship according to which democracy is a determinant of economic development? Or is it, conversely, economic development that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267954
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Why populist democracy promotes market liberalization
Grosjean, Pauline; Senik, Claudia - 2008
Using a new set of micro evidence from an original survey of 28 transition countries, we show that democracy increases … reformist parties in the former socialist block lies in a deepening of democracy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268619
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Joblessness and perceptions about the effectiveness of democracy
Altindag, Duha; Mocan, H. Naci - 2010
individuals and the prevailing unemployment rate in the country impact perceptions of the effectiveness of democracy. We find that … personal joblessness experience translates into negative opinions about the effectiveness of democracy and it increases the … that democracies are ineffective, regardless of joblessness. People's beliefs about the effectiveness of democracy as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275889