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The Democratic-Republican presidential growth gap and the partisan balance of the state government
Cahan, Dodge; Potrafke, Niklas - 2017
Higher economic growth was generated during Democratic presidencies compared to Republican presidencies in the United States. The question is why. Blinder and Watson (2016) explain that the Democratic-Republican presidential growth gap (D-R growth gap) can hardly be attributed to the policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663552
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Dragnet-controls and government ideology
Potrafke, Niklas - 2019
, in turn, new populist parties that offer more polarized platforms. I investigate whether government ideology influences … evaluating how government/party ideology influences individual policies, previous econometric studies ignored initiatives in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011956331
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Dragnet-controls and government ideology
Potrafke, Niklas - 2019
, in turn, new populist parties that offer more polarized platforms. I investigate whether government ideology influences … government/party ideology influences individual policies, previous econometric studies ignored initiatives in parliament. My …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011963031
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Dragnet-Controls and Government Ideology
Potrafke, Niklas - 2019
, in turn, new populist parties that offer more polarized platforms. I investigate whether government ideology influences … evaluating how government/party ideology influences individual policies, previous econometric studies ignored initiatives in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892136
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The Democratic-Republican Presidential Growth Gap and the Partisan Balance of the State Governments
Cahan, Dodge - 2017
Higher economic growth was generated during Democratic presidencies compared to Republican presidencies in the United States. The question is why. Blinder and Watson (2016) explain that the Democratic-Republican presidential growth gap (D-R growth gap) can hardly be attributed to the policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952476
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A Banana Republic? Trust in Electoral Institutions in Western Democracies - Evidence from a Presidential Election in Austria
Potrafke, Niklas - 2017
We examine the extent to which political scandals influence trust in electoral institutions in established Western democracies. The second ballot of the 2016 Presidential election in Austria needed to be repeated because of inconsistencies in individual electoral districts (scandal districts)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964379
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A banana republic? : trust in electoral institutions in Western democracies : evidence from a presidential election in Austria
Potrafke, Niklas; Rösel, Felix - 2016
We examine the extent to which political scandals influence trust in electoral institutions in established Western democracies. The second ballot of the 2016 Presidential election in Austria needed to be repeated because of inconsistencies in individual electoral districts (scandal districts)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573950
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Green Governments
Potrafke, Niklas; Wüthrich, Kaspar - 2020
exploits that the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan gave rise to an unanticipated change in government in the German state … Baden-Wuerttemberg in 2011. The incumbent rightwing government was replaced by a leftwing government led by the Green party …. The results do not suggest that the Green government influenced macroeconomic outcomes. The Green government implemented …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012425632
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Green governments
Potrafke, Niklas; Wüthrich, Kaspar - 2020
exploits that the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan gave rise to an unanticipated change in government in the German state … Baden-Wuerttemberg in 2011. The incumbent rightwing government was replaced by a leftwing government led by the Green party …. The results do not suggest that the Green government influenced macroeconomic outcomes. The Green government implemented …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012319437
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Green Governments
Potrafke, Niklas; Wuthrich, Kaspar - 2021
Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan gave rise to an unanticipated change in government in the German state Baden-Wuerttemberg in … 2011. Using the synthetic control method, we find no evidence that the Green government influenced macroeconomic outcomes …. Inclusive education policies caused comprehensive schools to become larger. The results do not suggest that the Green government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013227483