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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 …
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Social Media and Democracy : Experimental Results
Gils, Freek van; Müller, Wieland; Prüfer, Jens - 2023
in a social media environment on voting behavior. Our results show that mandatory disclosure of interests, in combination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347857
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Voting for direct democratic participation : evidence from an initiative election
Arnold, Felix; Freier, Ronny; Pallauf, Magdalena; … - In: International tax and public finance 23 (2016) 4, pp. 716-740
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Enhancing Democracy : Can Civic Engagement Foster Political Participation?
Binder, Martin - 2018
volunteering are breeding grounds for democratic virtues and skills and thus enhance political participation. Methods: Data from … regression techniques to assess the effect of voluntary association membership/activities on political participation in the UK …. Results: It is found that organizational activity (more than mere membership) positively impacts on political participation …
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Voting and Information Aggregation in Parliamentary and Semi-Presidential Democracies
Izmirlioglu, Yusuf - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
this I build a model of strategic voting with incomplete information and analyze different ideological profiles of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008614988
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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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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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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012162971
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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...
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