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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...

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Efficient and inefficient welfare states

Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre; Sangnier, Marc - 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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Have you heard the news? How real-life expectations react to publicity

van der Wiel, Karen - 2009

hardly adapt their expectations to relevant publicity. On the contrary, those who do not often read a newspaper have a …

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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...

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Downloading wisdom from online crowds

Saiz, Albert; Simonsohn, Uri - 2008

likely to be successful, we construct proxies for a number of demographic variables in the US and for corruption across … also replicate results from two separate published papers establishing the correlates of corruption at both the state and … country level. Finally, we construct the first index of corruption in US cities and study its correlates. …

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The Changing Demand for Skills : Evidence from the Transition

Commander, Simon; Kollo, Janos - 2004

Transition has involved major job destruction and creation. This paper examines the skill content of these changes using a detailed three country firm survey. It shows that transition has exerted a strong bias against unskilled labour who have lost employment disproportionately. Moreover, job...

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What Makes Small Firms Grow? : Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance, and the Business Environment in Romania

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Lup, Dana - 2004

a survey of 297 new small enterprises in Romania containing detailed information from the startup date through 2001. We … enforcement, property rights, and corruption) are tested, but none are found to have any clear association with firm growth. …

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Privatization and Productivity in Romanian Industry: Evidence from a Comprehensive Enterprise Panel

Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - 2001

productivity for the entire surviving population of initially state-owned industrial corporations in Romania. The data permit us to …

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Employment and wage effects of privatization: evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - 2008

but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment …

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