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The decline of manufacturing employment and the rise of the far-right in Austria

Bekhtiar, Karim - 2023

In recent decades right-wing populist parties have experienced increased electoral success in many western democracies. This rise of the far-right, which is strongly built on the support of the working class, coincides with a sharp decline of the manufacturing sector. This paper analyzes the...

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Competitive politics, simplified heuristics, and preferences for public goods

Schläpfer, Felix; Schmitt, Marcel; Roschewitz, Anna - 2007

This paper examines the role of simplified heuristics in the formation of preferences for public goods. Political scientists have suggested that voters use simplified heuristics based on the positions of familiar parties to infer how a proposed policy will affect them and to cast a vote in line...

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An analysis of the Swiss vote on the use of genetically modified crops

Schläpfer, Felix - 2007

cultivation of genetically modified (GM) plants within Switzerland. The present study examines how individual voting decisions … regular voter survey undertaken after national-level voting decisions in Switzerland. Among the socioeconomic characteristics …

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Does immigration into their neighborhoods incline voters toward the extreme right? The case of the freedom Party of Austria

Halla, Martin; Wagner, Alexander F.; Zweimüller, Josef - 2012

This paper explores one potentially important channel through which immigration may drive support for extreme-right-wing parties: the presence of immigrants in the voters' neighborhoods. We study the case of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). Under the leadership of Jörg Haider, this party...

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Knowledge is power: A theory of information, income, and welfare spending

Lind, Jo Thori; Rohner, Dominic - 2011

informed than others. We develop a model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of …. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters …

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Can endogenously chosen institutions mitigate the free-rider problem and reduce perverse punishment?

Ertan, Arhan; Page, Talbot; Putterman, Louis - 2005

Previous experiments on public goods dilemmas have found that the opportunity to punish leads to higher contributions and reduces the free rider problem; however, a substantial amount of punishment is targeted on high contributors. In the experiment reported here, subjects are given the...

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Who Supports Portable Assessment Caps? The Role of Lock-Ins, Tax Share, and Mobility

Cheung, Ron; Cunningham, Chris R. - 2010

We examine voter support in 2008 for Constitutional Amendment 1 in Florida, which modifies a Proposition 13–like property assessment growth cap by allowing homeowners to port their exempted value to a new home. Despite claims by amendment proponents that it would lower property taxes, we do...

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Does Immigration into Their Neighborhoods Incline Voters Toward the Extreme Right? The Case of the Freedom Party of Austria

Halla, Martin; Wagner, Alexander F.; Zweimüller, Josef - 2012

This paper explores one potentially important channel through which immigration may drive support for extreme right-wing parties: the presence of immigrants in one's neighborhood. We study the case of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). Under the leadership of Jörg Haider, this party increased...

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Immigration and voting for the extreme right

Halla, Martin; Wagner, Alexander F.; Zweimüller, Josef - 2012

features of the history of immigration into Austria to identify a causal effect of immigration on ERW voting results. We argue …

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Pivotality and responsibility attribution in sequential voting

Bartling, Björn; Fischbacher, Urs; Schudy, Simeon - 2015

ask if decision makers are blamed for being pivotal if they implement an unpopular outcome in a sequential voting process …. We conduct an experimental voting game in which decision makers vote about the allocation of money between themselves and … recipients without voting rights. We measure responsibility attributions for voting decisions by eliciting the monetary …

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