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Backlash in Policy Attitudes after the Election of Extreme Political Parties
Carlsson, Magnus - 2015
and one from the far left, using panel data from 290 municipal election districts. To identify causal effects, we compare …
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Party Discipline and Pork Barrel Politics
Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan - 2021
Polities differ in the extent to which political parties can pre-commit to carry out promised policy actions if they take power. Commitment problems may arise due to a divergence between the ex ante incentives facing national parties that seek to capture control of the legislature and the ex...
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Strict Voter Identification Laws, Turnout, and Election Outcomes
Hoekstra, Mark - 2019
can affect voter turnout and election outcomes. We do so using historical data on more than 2,000 races in Florida and … small effect on turnout. Similarly, we also show under a range of conservative assumptions that very few election results … or critics were true, strict identification laws are unlikely to have a meaningful impact on turnout or election outcomes …
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Understanding the Success of the Know-Nothing Party
Alsan, Marcella; Eriksson, Katherine; Niemesh, Gregory - 2022
We study the contribution of economic conditions to the success of the first avowedly nativist political party in the United States. The Know-Nothing Party gained control of a number of state governments in the 1854-1856 elections running on a staunchly anti-Catholic and anti-Irish platform. Our...
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Smooth Politicians and Paternalistic Voters : A Theory of Large Elections
Faravelli, Marco - 2011
We propose a new game theoretic approach to modeling large elections that overcomes the "paradox of voting" in a costly voting framework, without reliance on the assumption of ad hoc preferences for voting. The key innovation that we propose is the adoption of a "smooth" policy rule under which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120312
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Did the New Deal Solidify the 1932 Democratic Realignment?
Kantor, Shawn - 2012
The critical election of 1932 represented a turning point in the future electoral successes of the Democrats and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098482
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Do Newspapers Serve the State? Incumbent Party Influence on the Us Press, 1869-1928
Gentzkow, Matthew - 2012
Using data from 1869 to 1928, we estimate the effect of party control of state governments on the entry, exit, circulation, prices, number of pages, and content of Republican and Democratic daily newspapers. We exploit changes over time in party control of the governorship and state legislatures...
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Immigration to the U.S : a Problem for the Republicans or the Democrats?
Mayda, Anna Maria - 2016
Survey merged with election data – and addresses the endogeneity of immigrant flows using a novel set of instruments. On … average across election types, immigration to the U.S. has a significant and negative impact on the Republican vote share …
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Party Affiliation, Partisanship, and Political Beliefs : A Field Experiment
Gerber, Alan - 2010
Political partisanship is strongly correlated with attitudes and behavior, but it is unclear from this pattern whether partisan identity has a causal effect on political behavior and attitudes. We report the results of a field experiment designed to investigate the causal effect of party...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013150909
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Party Influence in Congress and the Economy
Snowberg, Erik C. - 2006
market responses in recent midterm elections to Presidential elections. We use prediction markets tracking election outcomes …
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