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Electoral competition and endogenous political institutions: Quasi-experimental evidence from Germany
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Fonseca, Mariana Lopes da - Center for European, Governance and Economic … - 2015
´ electoral prospects improve? We study this question with a natural experiment from the German federal state of Hesse. The … 2001 by the Hessian state parliament. The abolishment improved the electoral prospects of smaller parties at local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252701
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Coalition governments, cabinet size, and the common pool problem: Evidence from the German states
Baskaran, Thushyanthan - In: European Journal of Political Economy 32 (2013) C, pp. 356-376
incidence of coalition governments and the size of the cabinet in the German states. In addition, I exploit a feature of state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010719646
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Electoral competition and endogenous political institutions: quasi-experimental evidence from Germany
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Lopes da Fonseca, Mariana - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014
' electoral prospects improve? We study this question with a natural experiment from the German federal State of Hesse. The … 2001 by the Hessian state parliament. The abolishment improved the electoral prospects of smaller parties at local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011164058
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Electoral thresholds and political outcomes: Quasi-experimental evidence from a reform in Germany
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Fonseca, Mariana Lopes da - Center for European, Governance and Economic … - 2013
In 2001, the state parliament of the German federal state of Hesse abolished a 5 percent legal electoral threshold for … thresholds decrease with council size. Exploiting discontinuities in a state law that exogenously maps population to council size …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010954309
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Coalition governments, cabinet size, and the common pool problem: Evidence from the German states
Baskaran, Thushyanthan - Center for European, Governance and Economic … - 2013
incidence of coalition governments and the size of the cabinet in the German States. In addition, I exploit a feature of state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010954338
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Ideology and fiscal policy: quasi-experimental evidence from the German States
Baskaran, Thushyanthan - Center for European, Governance and Economic … - 2012
-wing state governments spend more than state governments with right-wing and mixed ideology. Deficits of left-wing governments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010954401
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Direct democracy and local public finances under cooperative federalism
Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Grigoriadis, … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
This paper exploits the introduction of the right of referenda at the local level in the German state of Bavaria in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957619
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The effect of direct democracy on the level and structure of local taxes
Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Heinemann, … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
We study the effect of direct democracy on local taxation. Our setting is the German federal state of Bavaria, where in … 1995 a state-wide referendum introduced the possibility to initiate direct democratic legislation into the local government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957669
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Fiscal decentralization and economic growth in OECD countries : is there a relationship?
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Feld, Lars P. - 2009
We study the relationship between fiscal decentralization and economic growth for 23 OECD countries from 1975 to 2001 by using new panel data on sub-federal tax autonomy. While initial estimations suggest that fiscal decentralization causes lower growth rates, we find that this result is not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273795
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Electoral thresholds and political outcomes: Quasi-experimental evidence from a reform in Germany
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Lopes da Fonseca, Mariana - 2013
In 2001, the state parliament of the German federal state of Hesse abolished a 5 percent legal electoral threshold for … thresholds decrease with council size. Exploiting discontinuities in a state law that exogenously maps population to council size …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327571