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politicians who vote against the party line in roll-call votes. The results do not show that parties account for the voting …
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fractionalization and group antagonism reduce the support for redistribution. Whereas within group inequality increases support for … redistribution, inequality between groups have the opposite effect. All these results hold even if a poor group is in majority. Using … increases and between group inequality decreases redistribution. …
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positions. The dataset includes the voting behavior of 257 MPs in 218 roll-call votes. Our results do not show that parties … account for the voting behavior by punishing politicians who have voted against the party line. Political parties may attract … different groups of voters by tolerating politicians who vote according to their own credo. Qualities other than the voting …
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In 2001, the state parliament of the German federal state of Hesse abolished a 5 percent legal electoral threshold for local elections. This reform had a stronger effect on municipalities with larger councils because implicit electoral thresholds decrease with council size. Exploiting...
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We analyze the impact of elected competitors from the same constituency on legislative shirking in the German Bundestag from 1953 to 2017. The German electoral system ensures that there is always at least one federal legislator per constituency with a varying number of elected competitors from...
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positions. The dataset includes the voting behavior of 257 MPs in 218 roll-call votes. Our results do not show that parties … account for the voting behavior by punishing politicians who have voted against the party line. Political parties may attract … different groups of voters by tolerating politicians who vote according to their own credo. Qualities other than the voting …
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men or women. The impact of education on religiosity and voting preference is not working through migration, residential …
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lines of race and education. -- Distributive Justice ; Governmental Redistribution ; Fairness …
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