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"In consideration of the children", really? Adoption of the school-rhythm reform by French municipalities

Cassette, Aurélie; Farvaque, Etienne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This research looks at the determinants of the adoption of the school-rhythm reform by French municipalities. The possibility opened to mayors to adopt the reform sooner (2013) or later (2014) offers the opportunity to measure how much the interests of the children have weighted on the decision....

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Unauthorized Immigration and Electoral Outcomes

Baerg, Nicole Rae; Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Quispe-Agnoli, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

How do inflows of unauthorized immigrants shape elections? Political economy theories often yield competing predictions … between the share of the county's workforce that is unauthorized and the share of votes going to Republicans in elections … in counties with higher median household income; and is substantively larger in U.S. Congressional elections than …

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Voting in general elections on single day and in single phase

Varma, Vijaya Krushna Varma - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This expanded banking system will help the Election Commission conduct voting in General elections on single day and in … single phase. All elections from panchayats to Parliament can be conducted with the help of expanded banking system with …

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Are Elections Debt Brakes? Evidence from French Municipalities

Caseette, Aurélie; Farvaque, Etienne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

effect. Elections thus appear as a disciplining device, even if a weak one. …

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A Theory of Political Accountability and Journalism

Bruns, Christian; Himmler, Oliver - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Journalism is widely believed to be crucial for holding elected officials accountable. At the same time economic theory has a hard time providing a straightforward explanation for the phenomenon of "accountability journalism". According to the common Downsian reasoning, rational voters should...

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On the Extent of Strategic Voting

Spenkuch, Jörg - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

-world elections. The evidence indicates that approximately 35% of voters abandon their most preferred candidate if she is not in …

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Electoral and political reforms

Varma, Vijaya Krushna Varma - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Varma proposes new political and electoral reforms for better, healthy and improved democracy to remove inequalities, corruption, unemployment and mis-governance. This new political and electoral reforms are aimed at empowering under privileged, working class, rural and urban areas.

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Elections, Political Competition and Bank Failure

Liu, Wai-Man; Ngo, Phong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

We model and predict that politicians have incentives to delay bank failure in election years and that this incentive is exacerbated if the election is close. Our empirical application using the US data supports these predictions. At the bank level, we show that bank failure in an election year...

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Changes in the Eternal City: Inequalities, commons, and elections in Rome districts from 2000 to 2013

Tomassi, Federico - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

In city districts in Rome, social and economic inequalities between centre and peripheral belts have been increasing over the last years, in parallel to the on-going suburban sprawl. Electoral data from 2000 to 2013 highlight sharp political polarization too. Votes for left-wing (right-wing)...

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Puzzles of public opinion: Why Soviet population supports the transition to capitalism since the 1980S

Popov, Vladimir - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

mass media and democratic elections. The return of public opinion to the “norm” so that it reflects interests of the …

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