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Viewing fiscal policies as the outcome of democratically resolved conflicts of households over public goods and taxes, the “economic model of politics” proposes a public choice approach, which does not rely on social welfare functions. With it, a country’s overall budget can be derived...
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Does voter turnout affect policy outcomes? This long-standing question has been re-visited recently with close empirical scrutiny. These studies, however, commonly suffer from a problem of omitting variables correlated with both causal and outcome variables : specifically, immeasurable political...
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Whereas the economics discipline possesses a highly refined theoretical apparatus to analyze the effects of government behaviour on the economy, it has not (yet) managed to fully develop a positively formulated "economic theory of politics" that would permit the integration of the...
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suffrage in the Kingdom of Saxony at the end of the 19th Century on stock market prices of Saxon firms listed on the Berlin …
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We study the consequences of franchise extension and ballot reform for the size of government in Western Europe between 1820 and 1913. We find that franchise extension exhibits a U-shaped association with revenue per capita and a positive association with spending per capita. Instrumental...
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cycle manifests itself in election year tax cuts and savings on administration costs. Universal suffrage, where all adult … different suffrage regimes: taxpayer suffrage (1902-1914) and universal suffrage (1921-1937). We argue and find supporting … evidence that the political budget cycle operates differently under the two types of suffrage. Taxpayer suffrage, where the …
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cycle manifests itself in election year tax cuts and savings on administration costs. Universal suffrage, where all adult … different suffrage regimes: taxpayer suffrage (1902-1914) and universal suffrage (1921-1937). We argue and find supporting … evidence that the political budget cycle operates differently under the two types of suffrage. Taxpayer suffrage, where the …
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We study the consequences of franchise extension and ballot reform for the size of government in Western Europe between 1820 and 1913. We find that franchise extension exhibits a U-shaped association with revenue per capita and a positive association with spending per capita. Instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010627562
this new measure of the threat of revolution and measures of suffrage reform in two samples of European countries covering … that war triggered suffrage reform, whereas other theories of the extension of the franchise, including ‘modernization …
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measures of suffrage reform in two samples of European countries covering the period from 1820 to 1938. We find strong support … for the ‘threat of revolution theory’. We also find some evidence that war triggered suffrage reform, whereas …
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