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Immigration and electoral support for the far-left and the far-right
Edo, Anthony; Giesing, Yvonne; Öztunc, Jonathan; … - 2018
Immigration has become one of the most divisive political issues in the United States, the United Kingdom, France and several other Western countries. We estimate the impact of immigration on voting for far-left and far-right candidates in France, using panel data on presidential elections from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011800646
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Pocketbook voting, social preferences, and expressive motives in referenda
Meya, Johannes; Poutvaara, Panu; Schwager, Robert - 2017
costs and benefits, our setting comprises a real-world laboratory of direct democracy. We find that monetary benefits …We develop and test a theory of voting and turnout decisions that integrates self-interest, social preferences, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011645032
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Pocketbook voting, social preferences, and expressive motives in referenda
Meya, Johannes; Poutvaara, Panu; Schwager, Robert - 2017
costs and benefits, our setting comprises a real-world laboratory of direct democracy. We find that monetary benefits …We develop and test a theory of voting and turnout decisions that integrates self-interest, social preferences, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011657009
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Pocketbook voting and social preferences in referenda
Meya, Johannes; Poutvaara, Panu; Schwager, Robert - 2015
We study the role of self-interest and social preferences in referenda. Our analysis is based on collective purchasing decisions of university students on deep-discount flat rate tickets for public transportation and culture. Individual usage data allows quantifying monetary benefits associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010496966
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Redistributive Politics with Target-Specific Beliefs
Fong, Christina M. - 2019
the reasons for being poor. We develop and test a theory about support for redistribution in the presence of target …-specific beliefs about the causes of low and high incomes. Our theory predicts that target-specific beliefs about the poor matter most … welfare recipients supports our theory. We also find, in theory, the existence of a moral release equilibrium in which the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889829
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Pocketbook Voting, Social Preferences, and Expressive Motives in Referenda
Meya, Johannes - 2017
costs and benefits, our setting comprises a real-world laboratory of direct democracy. We find that monetary benefits …We develop and test a theory of voting and turnout decisions that integrates self-interest, social preferences, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956976
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Immigration and electoral support for the far left and the far right
Edo, Anthony; Giesing, Yvonne; Öztunc, Jonathan; … - 2017
Immigration has become one of the most divisive political issues in the United States, the United Kingdom, France and several other Western countries. We estimate the impact of immigration on voting for far-left and far-right parties in France, using panel data on presidential elections from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794011
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Public attention and policy responses to COVID-19 pandemic
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Ganslmeier, Michael; Poutvaara, Panu - 2020
Early non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) significantly reduced the death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, there are vast differences in how quickly governments implemented NPIs. In this paper, we analyze the role of public attention, measured as the share of daily Google searches in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241067
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Public Attention and Policy Responses to COVID-19 Pandemic
Aksoy, Cevat - 2020
Early non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) significantly reduced the death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, there are vast differences in how quickly governments implemented NPIs. In this paper, we analyze the role of public attention, measured as the share of daily Google searches in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828792
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Public attention and policy responses to COVID-19 pandemic
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Ganslmeier, Michael; Poutvaara, Panu - 2020
Early non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) significantly reduced the death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, there are vast differences in how quickly governments implemented NPIs. In this paper, we analyze the role of public attention, measured as the share of daily Google searches in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012243274