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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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Electoral Systems and the Influence of the Median Voter: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from popular and parliamentary votes
Portmann, Marco; Eichenberger, Reiner; Stadelmann, David - 2010
When moving from a plurality rule to a proportional system, members of national parliament have more incentives to diverge from the median voter's preferences. We match voting behavior concerning legislative proposals of Swiss members of parliament with real referenda outcomes on the same issues...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271428
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District Magnitude and Representation of the Majority?s Preferences: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Popular and Parliamentary Votes
Portmann, Marco; Stadelmann, David; Eichenberger, Reiner - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2010
Members of parliament have more effective incentives to cater for the majority?s preferences when they are elected in districts with few seats in parliament rather than in districts with many seats. We empirically investigate this hypothesis by matching voting behavior on legislative proposals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008462037
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District Magnitude and Representation of the Majority's Preferences: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Popular and Parliamentary Votes
Portmann, Marco; Stadelmann, David; Eichenberger, Reiner - 2010
Members of parliament have more effective incentives to cater for the majority's preferences when they are elected in districts with few seats in parliament rather than in districts with many seats. We empirically investigate this hypothesis by matching voting behavior on legislative proposals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168355
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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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Gender and corruption: The neglected role of culture
Debski, Julia; Jetter, Michael; Mösle, Saskia; … - In: European Journal of Political Economy 55 (2018), pp. 526-537
of corruption have received great attention. We reproduce this correlation for 177 countries from 1998 to 2014. However … market are not directly linked to lower corruption. Exploiting country-specific dimensions of culture, we then present … corruption and female participation rates. In fact, these two cultural characteristics are sufficient to fully explain the link …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012512956
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Gender and Corruption: The Neglected Role of Culture
Debski, Julia; Jetter, Michael; Mösle, Saskia; … - 2016
of corruption have received great attention. We reproduce this correlation for 177 countries from 1998 to 2014. Once … linked to lower corruption. Exploiting different dimensions of culture as country-specific characteristics, our analysis … shows that power distance and masculinity systematically affect corruption. These two cultural characteristics are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168473
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Voting against the separation of powers between legislature and administration
Stadelmann, David; Eichenberger, Reiner; Portmann, Marco - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2013
We compare the votes of parliamentary representatives and their constituents on a popular initiative that directly aimed at weakening the separation of powers in 1922 in Switzerland. We analyze whether the strength of individual ties to the public service affect the probability of voting for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010690318
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Voting against the separation of powers between legislature and administration
Stadelmann, David; Eichenberger, Reiner; Portmann, Marco - 2013
We compare the votes of parliamentary representatives and their constituents on a popular initiative that directly aimed at weakening the separation of powers in 1922 in Switzerland. We analyze whether the strength of individual ties to the public service affect the probability of voting for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168420
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Gender and corruption : the neglected role of culture
Debski, Julia; Jetter, Michael; Mösle, Saskia; … - In: European journal of political economy 55 (2018), pp. 526-537
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011976485