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Intergenerational correlations of extreme right-wing party preferences and attitudes toward immigration
Avdeenko, Alexandra; Siedler, Thomas - 2016
This study analyzes the importance of parental socialization on the development of children's far right-wing preferences and attitudes towards immigration. Using longitudinal data from Germany, our intergenerational estimates suggest that the strongest and most important predictor for young...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011499559
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Income changes do not influence political participation: Evidence from comparative panel data
Jungkunz, Sebastian; Marx, Paul - 2021
latent-growth-curve modeling based on household panels show that participatory inequality by parental income is already large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012549992
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Law and social capital: Evidence from the Code Napoleon in Germany
Buggle, Johannes C. - 2013
Do legal institutions affect norms of cooperation? Using the introduction of the Code Napoleon during the Napoleonic … Wars in Germany as a historical experiment, I show that a positive shock to the quality of legal institutions can increase … be a potential mechanism for the relationship between legal institutions and social capital. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317548
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Law and Social Capital: Evidence from the Code Napoleon in Germany
Buggle, Johannes C. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
Do legal institutions affect norms of cooperation? Using the introduction of the Code Napoleon during the Napoleonic … Wars in Germany as a historical experiment, I show that a positive shock to the quality of legal institutions can increase … be a potential mechanism for the relationship between legal institutions and social capital. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896247
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Sind Politiker risikofreudiger als das Volk? Eine empirische Studie zu Mitgliedern des Deutschen Bundestags
Heß, Moritz; von Scheve, Christian; Schupp, Jürgen; … - 2013
Das Papier geht der Frage nach, ob sich Berufspolitikerinnen und Berufspolitiker in ihren Risikoeinstellungen systematisch von der allgemeinen Bevölkerung unterscheiden. In einer schriftlichen Befragung von Mitgliedern des 17. Deutschen Bundestags wurde Ende 2011 die Risikoeinstellungen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292382
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Members of German Federal Parliament more risk-loving than general population
Heß, Moritz; von Scheve, Christian; Schupp, Jürgen; … - 2013
The article analyzes the question of whether career politicians differ systematically from the general population in terms of their attitudes toward risk. A written survey of members of the 17th German Bundestag in late 2011 identified their risk attitudes, and the survey data was set in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294942
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Belonging or estrangement: The European refugee crisis and its effects on immigrant identity
Prömel, Christopher - 2022
This study deals with the impact of the 2015 European Refugee Crisis on the ethnic identity of resident migrants in Germany. To derive plausibly causal estimates, I exploit the quasiexperimental setting in Germany, by which refugees are allocated to different counties by state authorities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013164140
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Income misperception and populism
Albers, Thilo N. H.; Kersting, Felix; Kosse, Fabian - 2022
We propose that false beliefs about the own current economic status are an important factor for explaining populist attitudes. Along with the subjects' receptiveness to rightwing populism, we elicit their perceived relative income positions in a representative survey of German households. We...
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Reluctant to reform? A note on risk-loving politicians and bureaucrats
Thomas, Tobias; Heß, Moritz; Wagner, Gert G. - 2017
As from a political economy perspective, politicians often fail to implement structural reforms, we investigate if the resistance to reform is based on the differences in the risk preferences of voters, politicians, and bureaucrats. Based on the empirical results of a survey of the population in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011748461
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Job loss fears and (extremist) party identification: First evidence from panel data
Geishecker, Ingo; Siedler, Thomas - 2012
There is a large body of literature analyzing the relationship between objective economic conditions and voting behavior, but there is very little evidence of how perceived economic insecurity impacts on political preferences. Using seventeen years of household panel data from the German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290724