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Does female suffrage increase public support for government spending? : evidence from Swiss ballots
Hofer, Katharina E. - 2013
In this paper, I analyze the voting outcomes of two very similar Swiss referendum ballots concerning the federal … 1971, and the other shortly thereafter. I estimate the impact of introducing female voting on the difference in acceptance … population. I provide additional evidence from post-ballot surveys after similar ballots to overcome potential strategic voting …
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Does female suffrage increase public support for government spending? : evidence from Swiss ballots ; conference paper
Hofer, Katharina E. - 2013 - Work in progress
experiment from Switzerland, I test this hypothesis empirically. I analyze the voting outcomes of two very similar referendum … are conducted for voters and non-voters and confirm that the results extend to the non-voting population. My results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339969
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Information aggregation in democratic mechanisms
Britz, Volker; Gersbach, Hans - 2016 - This version: January 22, 2016
private information truthfully before voting takes place. Depending on the distance between two feasible public good levels …, the optimal mechanism involves either one or two voting rounds. We show that procedural efficiency cannot be achieved by … communication among all citizens prior to voting. Finally, we outline several applications of the mechanism. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444451
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Rain, emotions and voting for the status quo
Meier, Armando N.; Schmid, Lukas; Stutzer, Alois - 2016
Do emotions affect the decision between change and the status quo? We exploit exogenous variation in emotions caused by rain and analyze data on more than 400 ballot propositions in Switzerland for the years 1958 to 2014 to address this question. The empirical tests are based on administrative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580862
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Inherited institutions : cooperation in the light of democratic legitimacy
Langenbach, Pascal; Tausch, Franziska - 2017
impact of the voting procedure, no information about the cooperation history is provided. In line with existing empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011587713
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Rain, emotions and voting for the status quo
Meier, Armando N.; Schmid, Lukas; Stutzer, Alois - 2019
Do emotions affect the decision between change and the status quo? We exploit exogenous variation in emotions caused by rain and analyze data on more than 870,000 municipal vote outcomes in Switzerland to address this question. The empirical tests are based on administrative ballot outcomes and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012061871
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Disincentives from redistribution : evidence on a dividend of democracy
Sausgruber, Rupert; Sonntag, Axel; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2019
We experimentally study the disincentive effect of taxing work and redistributing tax revenues when redistribution is imposed vs. democratically chosen in a vote. We find a “dividend of democracy” in the sense that the disincentive effect is substantially smaller when redistribution is...
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Democracy and compliance in public goods games
Gallier, Carlo - 2017
voting. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735311
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Do voters dislike liberalizing reforms? : new evidence using data on satisfaction with democracy
Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2018
Since the early 1980s a wave of liberalizing reforms has swept over the world. While the stated motivation for these reforms has usually been to increase economic efficiency, some critics have instead inferred ulterior motives and a desire to enrich certain (already rich) people at the expense...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011787907
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Voting for direct democracy : evidence from a unique popular initiative in Bavaria
Arnold, Felix; Freier, Ronny; Pallauf, Magdalena; … - 2014
We analyze a constitutional change in the German State of Bavaria where citizens, not politicians, granted themselves more say in politics at the local level through a constitutional initiative at the state level. This institutional setting allows us to focus on revealed preferences for direct...
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