This paper explores whether professional macroeconomic forecasters manipulate their forecasts to influence voting …

identical host country's citizens. Using data on individual voting behavior in 22 European countries between 2001 and 2017 we …

There is surprisingly little evidence on how terror attacks impact elections. With only a few exceptions, previous …

. Using data on individual voting behavior in 22 European countries between 2001 and 2017, we characterize each vote on a left …

to national parliamentary elections. This effect is more pronounced for visible and labor-intensive projects and can be …

representations in union of states, is discussed. This concept, introduced into discussion about voting rights in the Council of … European Union in 2004, was narrowed to proposal of distribution of voting weights among the member states proportionally to … square roots of population. Such a distribution should guarantee the same indirect voting power to each EU citizen, measured …

the process by removing the most controversial element: the voting weights. The new system relies entirely on population … majority voting ; Banzhaf index ; Shapley-Shubik index ; a priori voting power ; demographics …

actual estimation using data from the 1999 European Parliament elections. …

exit does not require new negotiations as the success of a voting initiative only depends on the number and total …