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Past Exposure to Macroeconomic Shocks and Populist Attitudes in Europe

Gavresi, Despina; Litina, Anastasia - 2021

This paper explores the interplay between past exposure to macroeconomic shocks and populist attitudes. We document that individuals who experienced a macroeconomic shock during their impressionable years (between 18 and 25 years of age), are currently more prone to voting for populist parties,...

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Preferences for International Redistribution : The Divide Over the Eurozone Bailouts

Bechtel, Michael M. - 2013

Why do voters agree to bear the costs of bailing out other countries? Despite the prominence of public opinion in the ongoing debate over the eurozone bailouts, voters' preferences on the topic are poorly understood. We conduct the first systematic analysis of this issue using observational and...

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Did austerity cause Brexit?

Fetzer, Thiemo - 2018

Did austerity cause Brexit? This paper shows that the rise of popular support for the UK Independence Party (UKIP), as the single most important correlate of the subsequent Leave vote in the 2016 European Union (EU) referendum, along with broader measures of political dissatisfaction, are...

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Has immigration contributed to the rise of rightwing extremist parties in Europe?

Edo, Anthony; Giesing, Yvonne - 2020

Alongside a range of already well documented factors such as deindustrialization, technological progress and international trade, a series of recent empirical econometric studies show that immigration has contributed to the rise of extreme right-wing parties in Europe. Our study highlights,...

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Migrants' missing votes

Giesing, Yvonne; Schikora, Felicitas - 2020

Emigrants are less likely to participate in elections in their home country. They are also self-selected in terms of education, gender, age, and political preferences, changing the structure of the origin population. High emigration rates can therefore have a systematic influence on election...

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Citizen Support for the Welfare State : Determinants of Preferences for Income Redistribution

Rehm, Philipp - 2005

This paper explores the determinants of individual level support for income redistribution by the government. It argues … that there are two sources of preference formation when it comes to redistribution. People are either in favor of income … redistribution because they are disadvantaged, or they favor redistribution as a means to insure against income shocks. The paper …

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Equilibrium and convergence in personal income distribution? : how European countries performed during a phase of huge economic turbulence (2004-2017)

Guo, Yanling; Sell, Friedrich L. - 2020 - This version: January 2020

The authors set up a political economy equilibrium framework for personal income distribution. Located in status theory, their concept is able to explain what justifies a certain or optimal degree of inequality in the society. The authors present an empirical analysis of personal income...

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Second-generation immigrants and native attitudes toward immigrants in Europe

Barrera, Oscar; Bensidoun, Isabelle; Edo, Anthony - 2022

This paper investigates the role played by immigrants and their children in shaping native attitudes toward immigrants in the European Union. By exploiting the 2017 Special Eurobarometer on immigrant integration, we show that countries with a relatively high share of immigrants are more likely...

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The Delegation Perspective on Representative Democracy

Hain, Roland; Mitra, Manipushpak - 2002

Why do political constituencies delegate decision power to representative assemblies? And how is the size of such assemblies determined? We analyze these questions of constitutional design in a model with voters learning their preferred alternative only after engaging in costly information...

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What If Europe Held an Election and No One Cared?

Schleicher, David - 2011

Last June’s European Parliament (“EP”) election was widely considered a failure. Turnout was low across Europe, and, as has been the case in every EP election since they were introduced in 1979, voters responded exclusively to domestic cues in deciding how to fill the European Union’s...

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