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Gender parity in German politics : further effort required
Coka, Daniela Arregui; Freier, Ronny; Mollerstrom, Johanna - In: DIW economic bulletin 7 (2017) 37, pp. 365-373
Although many political authorities endorse the basic goal of parity between men and women across the board, reality does not yet reflect this in Germany. In the German Bundestag, for example, at present 37.1 percent of representatives are women. Divided among the six parties with the greatest...
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Beyond equal rights: Equality of opportunity in political participation
Hufe, Paul; Peichl, Andreas - 2016
It is well understood that political participation is stratified by socio-economic characteristics. Yet it is an open … developed by an expanding empirical literature on EOp we investigate to what extent political participation is determined by …, we find that a lack of political opportunity is particularly pronounced for contacts with officials, participation in …
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Beyond Equal Rights: Equality of Opportunity in Political Participation
Hufe, Paul; Peichl, Andreas - 2018
While it is well documented that political participation is stratified by socio-economic characteristics, it is an open … what extent differential political participation is determined by factors that lie beyond individual control (circumstances … forms of participation and persist over time. Family characteristics and psychological conditions during childhood emanate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931969
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Beyond equal rights : equality of opportunity in political participation
Hufe, Paul; Peichl, Andreas - 2016 - preliminary version: 10.10.2016
It is well understood that political participation is stratified by socio-economic characteristics. Yet it is an open … developed by an expanding empirical literature on EOp we investigate to what extent political participation is determined by …, we find that a lack of political opportunity is particularly pronounced for contacts with officials, participation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011552392
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Equality of opportunity for well-being
Mahler, Daniel Gerszon; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2017
A growing literature has tried to measure the extent to which individuals have equal opportunities to acquire income. At the same time, policy makers have doubled down on efforts to go beyond income when measuring well- being. We attempt to bridge these two areas by measuring the extent to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716166
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Equality of opportunity for well-being
Mahler, Daniel Gerszon; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2017
A growing literature has tried to measure the extent to which individuals have equal opportunities to acquire income. At the same time, policy makers have doubled down on efforts to go beyond income when measuring well-being. We attempt to bridge these two areas by measuring the extent to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011717717
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Do more powerful interest groups have a disproportionate influence on policy?
Sharif, Zara; Swank, Otto H. - 2012
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Participation Dilemma : The Logic of Voter Turnout in Authoritarian Elections
Mehrdad, Navid - 2018
Why do the electorate vote or abstain from voting under competitive authoritarianism? Elite rent seeking and rent distribution are recognized as main determinants of turnout in authoritarian elections, but the logic of voting decision on the side of an oppositional electorate remains...
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Information disclosure in elections with sequential costly participation
Vorobyev, Dmitriy - 2020
Electoral legislation varies across countries and within countries over time, and across different types of elections in terms of how it allows publication of intermediate election results including turnout and candidates' vote shares during an election day. Using a pivotal costly voting model...
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Political Participation and the Welfare State
Borck, Rainald - 2018
A large literature has claimed that higher political participation increases welfare spending. In this paper, I review … this literature. I study the theoretical link between participation and redistributive spending. Then, I survey the … empirical literature on the link between education, income and political participation, as well as that between political …
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