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Haben sich Landespolitiker ihre Diäten aus wahltaktischen Gründen lieber nach als vor den Wahlen erhöht?
Kauder, Björn; Krause, Manuela; Potrafke, Niklas - In: ifo Schnelldienst 71 (2018) 02, pp. 21-24
In dem Wissen, dass viele Bürger Diätenerhöhungen kritisch sehen, liegt es nahe, dass Abgeordnete ihre Diäten besser direkt nach Wahlen erhöhen als unmittelbar vor den Wahlen. In einer neuen Studie des ifo Instituts wurde anhand von Daten für 15 deutsche Bundesländer im Zeitraum...
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Campaign Advertising and Election Outcomes: Quasi-Natural Experiment Evidence from Gubernatorial Elections in Brazil
da Silva, Bernardo S.; de Mello, João Manoel Pinho - 2010
Whether campaign advertising influences election outcomes is an open question; a paradox given the amount spent on … large causal effect of TV advertising on election outcomes. …
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Superstars in politics: the role of the media in the rise and success of Junichiro Koizumi
Yamamura, Eiji; Sabatini, Fabio - 2014
candidate to win an election, even though his main agenda item (i.e., postal privatization) is strongly opposed by special …
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An OECD Framework for Financing Democracy
Rhode, Carla - In: ifo DICE Report 15 (2017) 2, pp. 55-60
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Letter from America: The US Economy and the Election
Galbraith, James K. - In: Intereconomics 59 (2024) 2, pp. 119-120
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2014 elections to the European Parliament: Economic challenges for Europe
Bonin, Holger; Fuest, Clemens; Heinemann, Friedrich; … - 2014
In this paper we discuss what needs to be done in a number of key policy areas. Certainly, the EU should focus on fields where benefits for all of Europe can be produced, and should withdraw from policy areas where this is not the case. Furthermore, deeper economic and political integration is...
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Voice of the diaspora: An analysis of migrant voting behavior
Fidrmuc, Jan; Doyle, Orla - 2005
This paper utilizes a unique dataset on votes cast by Czech and Polish migrants in recent national elections in their home countries. The political preferences of migrants as manifested by their voting behavior are strikingly different from those of their home-country counterparts. In addition,...
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Determinants of the influence of voters and interest groups on the political decision making process
Bischoff, Ivo - 2001
try to win the election with as little concessions as possible. The efficient amount of concessions and their distribution … efficient amount of concessions depends on the closeness of the election race. The closer the initial distribution of votes, the …
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Koizumi carried the day: Did the Japanese election results make people happy and unhappy?
Tsutsui, Yoshiro; Kimball, Miles; Ohtake, Fumio - 2007
This paper investigates whether Japanese people were happy and unhappy with the general election conducted on September … election to ask people how happy they were and which party they had supported. Although there are consistent tendencies that … presidential election, this study suggests that Japanese people are indifferent to politics. …
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Impact of the 1999 earthquakes on the outcome of the 2002 parliamentary election in Turkey
Akarca, Ali T.; Tansel, Aysit - 2008
parliamentary election is investigated, using cross-provincial data, and controlling for other social, political and economic …
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