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Do parties punish MPs for voting against the party line?
Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas; Riem, Marina - 2017
positions. The dataset includes the voting behavior of 257 MPs in 218 roll-call votes. Our results do not show that parties … account for the voting behavior by punishing politicians who have voted against the party line. Political parties may attract … different groups of voters by tolerating politicians who vote according to their own credo. Qualities other than the voting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011659465
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Conservative politicians and voting on same-sex marriage
Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - 2017
the majority increased by one percentage point, the likelihood of voting in favour of same-sex marriage decreased by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742931
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Minority positions in the German council of economic experts : a political economic analysis
Potrafke, Niklas - 2013
I investigate minority votes in the German Council of Economic Experts. The dataset contains information on the voting … behavior of the council members over the period 1971-2011. The results show that the best predictor of minority voting is being … against the majority opinion of the German Council of Economic Experts. This voting pattern indicates that the channel of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009732996
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Do Parties Punish MPs for Voting against the Party Line?
Kauder, Bjoern - 2017
positions. The dataset includes the voting behavior of 257 MPs in 218 roll-call votes. Our results do not show that parties … account for the voting behavior by punishing politicians who have voted against the party line. Political parties may attract … different groups of voters by tolerating politicians who vote according to their own credo. Qualities other than the voting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012953695
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Online Versus Offline: Which Networks Spur Protests?
Potrafke, Niklas; Roesel, Felix - 2022
Does social media or offline social cohesion overcome collective action problems more effectively when both types of networks are prevalent? We investigate non-violent protests against a place-based economic reform in Austria—a country where one in two citizens uses Facebook but also one in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013427755
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Online Versus Offline : Which Networks Spur Protests?
Potrafke, Niklas; Roesel, Felix - 2022
Does social media or offline social cohesion overcome collective action problems more effectively when both types of networks are prevalent? We investigate non-violent protests against a place-based economic reform in Austria—a country where one in two citizens uses Facebook but also one in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014244325
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Online versus offline : which networks spur protests?
Potrafke, Niklas; Rösel, Felix - 2022
Does social media or offline social cohesion overcome collective action problems more effectively when both types of networks are prevalent? We investigate non-violent protests against a place-based economic reform in Austria - a country where one in two citizens uses Facebook but also one in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013383582
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The preoccupation of the United Nations with Israel : evidence and theory
Becker, Raphael N.; Hillman, Arye L.; Potrafke, Niklas; … - 2014
We compiled data on all United Nations General Assembly resolutions on which voting took place between January 1990 and … model of behavioral political economy that includes decoy voting, vanity of autocrats, and a Schelling focal point for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010422167
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Do parties punish MPs for voting against the party line?
Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas; Riem, Marina - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 63 (2017) 3, pp. 317-332
positions. The data set includes the voting behavior of 257 MPs in 218 roll-call votes. Our results do not show that parties … account for the voting behavior by punishing politicians who have voted against the party line. Political parties may attract … different groups of voters by tolerating politicians who vote according to their own credo. Qualities other than the voting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011778975
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Does government ideology matter in monetary policy? A panel data analysis for OECD countries
Belke, Ansgar; Potrafke, Niklas - In: Journal of International Money and Finance 31 (2012) 5, pp. 1126-1139
This paper examines whether government ideology has influenced monetary policy in OECD countries. We use quarterly data in the 1980.1–2005.4 period and exclude EMU countries. Our Taylor-rule specification focuses on the interactions of a new time-variant index of central bank independence with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010599334