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Income and policy choices: Evidence from parliamentary decisions and referenda
Stadelmann, David; Portmann, Marco; Eichenberger, Reiner - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2014
We analyze political representation of preferences of different income groups by matching referendum outcomes for low …. Representation of income groups varies according to legislators' party affiliations. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098699
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Voters elect politicians who closely matched their preferences
Portmann, Marco; Stadelmann, David; Eichenberger, Reiner - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2012
What determines political candidates? election prospects? We match roll call votes of candidates for the majority elected upper house of parliament who were previously in the lower house with revealed preferences of their constituency. Thereby, we obtain a direct measure of past congruence....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010558779
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Voters elect politicians who closely matched their preferences
Portmann, Marco; Stadelmann, David; Eichenberger, Reiner - 2012
What determines political candidates' election prospects' We match roll call votes of candidates for the majority elected upper house of parliament who were previously in the lower house with revealed preferences of their constituency. Thereby, we obtain a direct measure of past congruence....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168398
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Income and policy choices: Evidence from parliamentary decisions and referenda
Stadelmann, David; Portmann, Marco; Eichenberger, Reiner - 2014
We analyze political representation of preferences of different income groups by matching referendum outcomes for low …. Representation of income groups varies according to legislators' party affiliations. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168449
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Voting on Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Citizens More Supportive than Politicians
Stadelmann, David; Torgler, Benno - 2016
As the public debate over stem cell research continues, the observable voting behaviour in Switzerland offers a unique opportunity to compare the voting behaviour of politicians with that of voters. In this paper, by analysing the outcomes of a referendum on a liberal new bill regulating such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168469
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More federal legislators lead to more resources for their constituencies : evidence from exogenous differences in seat allocations
Frank, Marco; Stadelmann, David - In: Journal of comparative economics : the journal of the … 49 (2021) 1, pp. 230-243
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603908
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Mobility and local income redistribution
Roehrs, Sigrid; Stadelmann, David - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2010
Mobility may undermine local income redistribution in federal systems,because rich taxpayers can evade high taxes by … moving to low tax jurisdictions. By analyzing a model of local income redistribution with endogenous voting, income … heterogeneity and an exogenously given degree of mobility we focus explicitly on the link between redistribution and mobility. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565922
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More federal legislators lead to more resources for their constituencies : evidence from exogenous differences in seat allocations
Frank, Marco; Stadelmann, David - 2019
Electoral district magnitude varies across German electoral constituencies and over legislative periods due to Germany’s electoral system. The number of seats in parliament per constituency is effectively random. This setting permits us to investigate exogenous variations in district magnitude...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265835
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Full transparency of politicians' actions does not increase the quality of political representation
Stadelmann, David; Portmann, Marco; Eichenberger, Reiner - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2013
We identify the impact of transparency in political decision -making on the quality of political representation with a … difference- in-difference strategy. The quality of political representation is measured by observed divergence of parliamentary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010763995
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Full transparency of politicians' actions does not increase the quality of political representation
Stadelmann, David; Portmann, Marco; Eichenberger, Reiner - 2013
We identify the impact of transparency in political decision -making on the quality of political representation with a … difference- in-difference strategy. The quality of political representation is measured by observed divergence of parliamentary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168425