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What does it take to sell environmental policy? An empirical analysis of referendum data
Halbheer, Daniel; Niggli, Sarah; Schmutzler, Armin - 2005
We analyze the factors that influence the support for environmental policy proposals. Swiss referendum data show that proposals obtain more yes-votes if they do not restrict consumption possibilities directly, if they are endorsed by the largest business association, if environmental preferences...
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Co-voting Democracy
Gersbach, Hans - 2016
We outline a new voting procedure for representative democracies. This procedure should be used for important decisions only and consists of two voting rounds: a randomly-selected subset of the citizens is awarded a one-time voting right. The parliament also votes, and the two decisions are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753320
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A Reform Dilemma in Polarized Democracies
Gersbach, Hans; Tejada, Oriol - 2016
We study the feasibility and efficiency of policy reforms in polarized democracies. We develop a simple election model where (i) reforms are costly for voters and politicians and these costs increase with the extent of policy change, and (ii) politicians differ in their ability to carry out...
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Information markets, elections and contracts
Gersbach, Hans; Müller, Markus - 2011
Politicians may pander to public opinion and may renounce undertaking beneficial long-term projects. To alleviate this problem, we introduce a triple mechanism involving political information markets, reelection threshold contracts, and democratic elections. An information market is used to...
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Liberalization, democracy and economic performance during transition
Fidrmuc, Jan - 2000
liberalization. Second, democracy has a negative effect on growth during the contraction, whereas its effect appears insignificant … apparently go beyond deteriorating economic performance. The level of democracy, in contrast, increases the support for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301318
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Internal and external political competition
Hugh-Jones, David - 2009
subjects may exit. In a simple model, both kinds of competition are substitutes. Internal competition (democracy) benefits … democracy, and rulers are less eager to oppose it, when external competition is high. In a panel of countries, there are fewer … changes towards democracy when states have low GDP relative to their neighbours. …
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Democracy, inequality and the environment when citizens can mitigate privately or act collectively
Bernard, Sophie; Hotte, Louis; Winer, Stanley L. - 2010
We study the political economy of the environment in autocratic, weak and strong democracies when individuals can either mitigate the health consequences of domestic pollution privately or reduce pollution collectively through public policy. The setting is that of a small open economy in which...
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Domestic political survival and international conflict: Is democracy good for peace?
Baliga, Sandeep; Lucca, David; Sjostrom, Tomas - 2009
non-hostile country. The result is a non-monotonic relationship between democracy and peace. Using the Polity IV dataset …
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Do institutions of direct democracy tame the leviathan? : Swiss evidence on the structure of expenditure for public education
Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2005
.S. and Switzerland has raised the question of what its transmission channels are. For the U.S., an increase in the ratio of … administration. For Switzerland, using a cross-sectional time-series panel of sub-federal school expenditure and size of classes, no … public goods for Switzerland have been found. …
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International Public Procurement Agreements - Problems of Implemetations in Switzerland
Frey, René L.; Kilchenmann, Christoph; Krautter, Nicolai - In: CESifo DICE Report 02 (2004) 3, pp. 31-37
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