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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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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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Overstrained citizens? : the number of ballot propositions and the quality of the decision process in direct democracy
Stutzer, Alois; Baltensperger, Michael; Meier, Armando N. - 2019
in citizens' knowledge, voting behavior, and attitudes toward democracy. Using three comprehensive data sets from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022702
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Overstrained citizens? : the number of ballot propositions and the quality of the decision process in direct democracy
Stutzer, Alois; Baltensperger, Michael; Meier, Armando N. - 2018
in citizens' knowledge, voting behavior, and attitudes toward democracy. Using three comprehensive data sets from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011926637
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Do Elections lead to Informed Public Decisions?
Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - 2003
and implement public policies, we show that examination takes place in spite of, rather than thanks to, elections …. Elections are needed as a carrot and a stick to motivate politicians, yet politicians who are overly interested in re …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324884
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Do elections lead to informed public decisions?
Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - 2003
and implement public policies, we show that examination takes place in spite of, rather than thanks to, elections …. Elections are needed as a carrot and a stick to motivate politicians, yet politicians who are overly interested in re …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334365
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Does the African middle class defend democracy? : evidence from Kenya
Cheeseman, Nic - 2014
Barrington Moore's famous line 'no bourgeoisie, no democracy' is one of the most quoted claims in political science. But has the rise of the African middle class promoted democratic consolidation? This paper uses the case of Kenya to investigate the attitudes and behaviours of the middle class....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010381387
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Electoral Accountability and Responsive Democracy
Duggan, John - 2015
We consider a canonical two-period model of elections with adverse selection (hidden preferences) and moral hazard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022706
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The political costs of oil price shocks
Arezki, Rabah; Djankov, Simeon; Nguyen, Ha; Yotzov, Ivan - 2022
We explore the effect of oil import price shocks on political outcomes using a worldwide dataset on elections of chief …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013205030
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Electoral cycles in perceived corruption : international empirical evidence
Potrafke, Niklas - 2018
than in other years, indicating that perceived corruption in the public sector increased before elections. The effect is … especially pronounced before early elections (1.0 points) compared to regular elections (0.4 points). Future research needs to … investigate why perceived corruption in the public sector increased before elections. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011962213