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Candidates' quality and electoral participation : evidence from Italian municipal elections
De Benedetto, Marco Alberto; De Paola, Maria - 2014
politicians' quality is positively affected by their wage and apply a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design relying on the fact …
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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 … increased by one percent. Politicians can increase their salaries at any point of time in the legislative period: understanding …
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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 … elections, but local politicians from large mainstream parties had the ability to adjust municipal political institutions 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 … elections, but local politicians from mainstream parties had the ability to adjust municipal political institutions in such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010484319
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Electoral thresholds and political outcomes: quasi-experimental evidence from a reform in Germany
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Lopes da Fonseca, Mariana - 2013
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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Broken promises : regime announcements and exchange rates around elections
Garofalo, Pablo; Streb, Jorge M. - 2020
We study the relationship between exchange-rate regime announcements and exchange-rate dynamics around government changes by combining the IMF de jure and the Reinhart and Rogoff de facto exchange-rate regime classifications. Using monthly data from Latin American democracies, we do not identify...
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Abstention and Populist Voting : Evidence from the Italian 2018 Election
Dalla Pellegrina, Lucia; Di Maio, Giorgio; Gilli, Mario - 2022
This study aims to investigate the demographic, social, and economic drivers of rising abstention and populist electoral success in Italy in 2018. The Italian case is unique in the euro area because, in the political elections of 4 March 2018, two parties usually identified as left-wing and...
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Understanding voters' preferences : how the electorate's complexity affects prediction accuracy and wishful thinking among politicans with respect to election outcomes
Jottier, Dimi; Ashworth, John; Heyndels, Bruno - In: Kyklos : international review for social sciences 65 (2012) 3, pp. 340-370
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When does regression discontinuity design work? : evidence from random election outcomes
Hyytinen, Ari; Meriläinen, Jaakko; Saarimaa, Tuukka; … - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 9 (2018) 2, pp. 1019-1051
against the estimate produced by this experiment that takes place exactly at the cutoff. The experimental estimate suggests … and statistically significant effect. Bias‐corrected RDD estimates that apply robust inference are, however, in line with …
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Political competition and legislative shirking in roll-call votes : evidence from Germany for 1953-2017
Frank, Marco; Stadelmann, David - 2020
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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