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Elites or Masses? A Structural Model of Policy Divergence, Voter Sorting and Apparent Polarization in U.S. Presidential Elections, 1972-2008
Krasa, Stefan; Polborn, Mattias - CESifo - 2012
One of the most widely discussed phenomena in American politics today is the perceived increasing partisan divide that splits the U.S. electorate. A central contested question is whether this diagnosis is actually true, and if so, what is the underlying cause. We develop a model that relates the...
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Social Ideology and Taxes in a Differentiated Candidates Framework
Krasa, Stefan; Polborn, Mattias - CESifo - 2011
How does ideological polarization on non-economic matters influence the size of government? We analyze this question using a differentiated candidates framework: Two office-motivated candidates differ in their (fixed) ideological position and their production function for public goods, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009144876
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Competition between Specialized Candidates
Krasa, Stefan; Polborn, Mattias - CESifo - 2010
We develop a formal model in which the government provides public goods in different policy fields for its citizens. We start from the basic premise that two office-motivated candidates have differential capabilities in different policy fields, and compete by proposing how to allocate government...
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Information and Extremism in Elections
Boleslavsky, Raphael; Cotton, Christopher - Department of Economics, School of Business - 2012
model of elections in which candidate ideology is strategically selected prior to a campaign which reveals information about …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604297
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Candidate location and endogenous valence
Alexei, Zakharov - EERC Research Network, Russia and CIS - 2005
This paper analyzes the effect that the ability of candidates to increase their valence has on candidate location in the Downsian model of elections. I show that if the candidates can increase valence at a cost after they have selected policy, then the candidates will select different policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005121374
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The Optimal Degree of Polarization
Ossokina, Ioulia V.; Swank, Otto - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001
This discussion paper led to a publication in the 'European Journal of Political Economics', 2004, 20, 255-262.<P> In the literature on electoral politics full convergence of policy platforms is usually regarded as socially optimal. Thereason is that risk-averse voters prefer a sure...</p>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256641
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Zum Einfluss von Parteiideologie auf die Staatstätigkeit in den US-Bundesstaaten
Potrafke, Niklas; Schneider, Margret; Simon, Christian - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 66 (2013) 11, pp. 24-29
Eine neue Studie zeigt den Einfluss von Parteiideologie auf Wirtschaftspolitik in den US-Bundesstaaten auf. Demokraten haben die Staatstätigkeit ausgeweitet; Republikaner haben sie zurückgefahren. Insbesondere haben Republikaner die Arbeitsmärkte dereguliert. Problemlos implementiert werden...
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Wirtschaftslage und Regierungsideologie in Europa
Potrafke, Niklas; Reischmann, Markus; Riem, Marina; … - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 67 (2014) 09, pp. 18-25
Im gegenwärtigen Europawahlkampf vertritt Jean-Claude Juncker die Ansicht, dass europäische Staaten mit konservativen Regierungen bessere wirtschaftliche Daten vorweisen können als Staaten mit sozialistischen Regierungen. Ob Regierungen unterschiedlicher parteipolitischer Zusammensetzung auch...
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Ideological polarization and the media
Melki, Mickael; Pickering, Andrew - In: Economics Letters 125 (2014) 1, pp. 36-39
Greater media presence may facilitate information transmission and consensus or amplify existing political differences. In the OECD greater media penetration is strongly correlated with reduced ideological polarization. Media penetration increases lead reductions in polarization, suggesting that...
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Ideology and the growth of US state government
Pickering, Andrew C.; Rockey, James - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2012
This paper analyzes the impact of ideology on the size of US state governments. Following Pickering and Rockey (2011 …) this impact is hypothesized to increase with mean state income. This idea is tested using state-level ideology data derived … from the voting behavior of state congressional representatives. Empirically the interaction of ideology and mean income is …
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