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Schreiner, Nicolas - 2021

countries between 1989 and 2019. Respondents interviewed in the months preceding election day report significantly lower levels …

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Electoral competition and endogenous political institutions : quasi-experimental evidence from Germany

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Lopes da Fonseca, Mariana - 2015

́electoral prospects improve? We study this question with a natural experiment from the German federal state of Hesse. The … experiment is the abolishment of an explicit electoral threshold (the so called "five percent hurdle") for local elections in …

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Electoral competition and endogenous political institutions : quasi-experimental evidence from Germany ; conference paper

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Lopes da Fonseca, Mariana - 2014

' electoral prospects improve? We study this question with a natural experiment from the German federal State of Hesse. The … experiment is the abolishment of an explicit electoral threshold (the so called "five percent hurdle") for local elections in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010484319

Superstars in politics : the role of the media in the rise and success of Junichiro Koizumi

Yamamura, Eiji; Sabatini, Fabio - 2014 - Preprint

candidate to win an election, even though his main agenda item (i.e., postal privatization) is strongly opposed by special …

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Constituency Campaigns in the 2005 German Federal Elections : Patterns, Motivations, and Effects

Zittel, Thomas - 2009

Local Campaigns are frequently studied phenomena in the context of first past the post voting systems such as the UK. They draw less attention in proportional list systems or mixedmember systems. Students of electoral politics assume for these systems a predominant role of political parties...

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Coping with choice modeling : theoretical and methodological insights

Rodenburger, Daniel - 2021

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Electoral cycles in MPs' salaries : evidence from the German States

Kauder, Björn; Krause, Manuela; Potrafke, Niklas - 2016

Members of parliament (MPs) often decide on their own salaries. Voters dislike self-serving politicians, and politicians are keen to gratify their voters. In line with the political business cycle theories, politicians thus may well delay deciding on increases in salaries until after elections....

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The partisan effects of voter turnout : how conservatives profit from rainy election days

Arnold, Felix; Freier, Ronny - 2015 - This version: March 23, 2015

deal with the endogeneity of voter turnout by using election day rain as an instrumental variable. Our particular …

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Electoral rules for mayors and incentives to pork-barrel : quasi-experimental evidence from German municipalities ; conference paper

Hessami, Zohal - 2014

This paper exploits a natural experiment in Hesse where a reform of the electoral rule from mayor appointment by the … state tier. This e ffect only materializes in the election year which suggests that mayors under the new electoral rule put … more e ffort into grant applications for highly visible infrastructure projects in order to increase their re-election …

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Incumbency effects in Germany : Federal and Mayoral Elections

Sieger, Philip - 2011

In this paper incumbency effects in Federal Elections and Mayoral Elections in Germany are estimated using a quasi-experimental design which allows for causal inference under a set of rather mild assumptions. Relying on nonparametric and parametric estimation procedures and exploiting a recently...

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