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Institutions and Political Party Systems : The Euro Case

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús - 2017

This paper argues that institutions and political party systems are simultaneously determined. A large change to the institutional framework, such as the creation of the euro by a group of European countries, will realign - after a transition period - the party system as well. The new political...

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Factions in Nondemocracies : Theory and Evidence from the Chinese Communist Party

Francois, Patrick - 2016

This paper investigates theoretically and empirically the factional arrangements and dynamics within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the governing political party of the People's Republic of China. Our empirical analysis ranges from the end of the Deng Xiaoping era to the current Xi Jinping...

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Inferring the Ideological Affiliations of Political Committees via Financial Contributions Networks

Chen, Yiran - 2017

pairwise difference in ideology groups' connection patterns satisfy a condition known as the Chernoff-Hellinger divergence … categorize the ideological affiliations of the political committees, our estimates match the self reported ideology for 94.36% of …

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How Do Voters Matter? Evidence from US Congressional Redistricting

Jones, Daniel B. - 2016

How does the partisan composition of an electorate impact the policies adopted by an elected representative? We take advantage of variation in the partisan composition of Congressional districts stemming from Census-initiated redistricting in the 1990's, 2000's, and 2010's. Using this variation,...

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Investor Ideology

Bolton, Patrick - 2019

We estimate institutional investor preferences based on their proxy voting records in publicly listed Russell 3000 firms. We employ a spatial model of proxy voting, the W-NOMINATE method for scaling legislatures, and map institutional investors onto a left-right dimension based on their votes...

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Moral Universalism and the Structure of Ideology

Enke, Benjamin - 2020

paper proposes that what partly explains the structure of ideology is moral universalism: the extent to which people …

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The Seeds of Ideology : Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States

Giuliano, Paola - 2020

We test the relationship between historical immigration to the United States and political ideology today. We …-lasting effect on the political ideology of US born individuals. Our analysis proceeds in three steps. First, we document that the … historical presence of European immigrants is associated with a more liberal political ideology and with stronger preferences for …

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The Evolution of Ideology, Fairness and Redistribution

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2009

Ideas about what is "fair" above and beyond the individual's position in the income ladder influence preferences for redistribution. We study the dynamic evolution of different economies in which redistributive policies, perceptions of fairness, inequality and growth are jointly determined. We...

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What Drives Media Slant? Evidence from U.S. Daily Newspapers

Gentzkow, Matthew - 2006

confirms an economically significant demand for news slanted toward one's own political ideology. Firms respond strongly to …

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Good bye Lenin (or not?) : The Effect of Communism on People's Preferences

Alesina, Alberto - 2005

Preferences for redistribution, as well as the generosities of welfare states, differ significantly across countries. In this paper, we test whether there exists a feedback process of the economic regime on individual preferences. We exploit the "experiment" of German separation and...

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