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Strategic extremism : why Republicans and Democrats divide on religious values
Glaeser, Edward L.; Ponzetto, Giacomo A. M.; Shapiro, … - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002380107
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Strategic Extremism : Why Republicans and Democrats Divide on Religious Values
Glaeser, Edward L.; Ponzetto, Giacomo A. M.; Shapiro, … - 2008
marriage. Religious extremism in the U.S. appears to be strategically targeted to win elections, since party platforms diverge … from attracting the median voter, why do vote-maximizing politicians veer off into extremism? In this paper, we find that … strategic extremism depends on an important intensive margin where politicians want to induce their core constituents to vote …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014028855
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Strategic Extremism : Why Republicans and Democrats Divide on Religious Values
Glaeser, Edward L.; Ponzetto, Giacomo A. M.; Shapiro, … - 2021
marriage. Religious extremism in the U.S. appears to be strategically targeted to win elections, since party platforms diverge … from attracting the median voter, why do vote-maximizing politicians veer off into extremism? In this paper, we find that … strategic extremism depends on an important intensive margin where politicians want to induce their core constituents to vote …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013248124
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Strategic extremism : why republicans and democrats divide on religious values
Glaeser, Edward L. (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002257723
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Strategic Extremism : Why Republicans and Democrats Divide on Religious Values
Glaeser, Edward L.; Ponzetto, Giacomo A. M.; Shapiro, … - In: The quarterly journal of economics (2004)
marriage. Religious extremism in the U.S. appears to be strategically targeted to win elections, since party platforms diverge … from attracting the median voter, why do vote-maximizing politicians veer off into extremism? In this paper, we find that … strategic extremism depends on an important intensive margin where politicians want to induce their core constituents to vote …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467854
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Strategic extremism : why republicans and democrats divide on religious values
Glaeser, Edward L.; Ponzetto, Giacomo A. M.; Shapiro, … - In: The quarterly journal of economics 120 (2005) 4, pp. 1283-1330
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003298040
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Why does democracy need education?
Glaeser, Edward L.; Ponzetto, Giacomo A. M.; Shleifer, … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003308587
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Why does democracy need education?
Glaeser, Edward L.; Ponzetto, Giacomo A. M.; Shleifer, … - In: Journal of economic growth 12 (2007) 2, pp. 77-99
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003503656
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The Political Economy of Transportation Investment
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2017
Will politics lead to over-building or under-building of transportation projects? In this paper, we develop a model of infrastructure policy in which politicians overdo things that have hidden costs and underperform tasks whose costs voters readily perceive. Consequently, national funding of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012949429
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Fundamental Errors in the Voting Booth
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2017
Psychologists have long documented that we over-attribute people's actions to innate characteristics, rather than to luck or circumstances. Similarly, economists have found that both politicians and businessmen are rewarded for luck. In this paper, we introduce this “Fundamental Attribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012949434