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Can right-wing terrorism increase support for far-right populist parties, and if so, why? Exploiting quasi-random variation between successful and failed attacks across German municipalities, we find that successful attacks lead to significant increases in the vote share for the right-wing,...
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. Surprisingly, when focusing on Germany and the U.S., populist voting is highest in less globalised regions with rather equal income … distributions. Addressing this puzzle, I ask how the regional variance in populist voting can be explained. In my answer, I … correlated with populist voting and that this effect is mitigated by public goods provision. Using county level data to develop …
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. Yet, little is known about the impact of this inflow on labor markets, crime, and voting behavior. This article uses …
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the list of candidates because a candidate is punished more when he loses positions at the threshold of promising list … 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 …
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This paper shows that import exposure affects voting behavior because it affects local labor markets. We develop a new … turmoil. The voting response to import exposure can entirely be explained by the labor market adjustments to import exposure …
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. Yet, little is known about the impact of this inflow on labor markets, crime, and voting behavior. This article uses …
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This paper explores the causal influence of media content on voting behavior. We exploit a natural experiment involving …
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In 2001, the state parliament of the German federal state of Hesse abolished a 5 percent legal electoral threshold for … threshold. The dataset covers all 426 Hessian municipalities over the period 1989-2011. Our results suggest that the seat and …
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I investigate minority votes in the German Council of Economic Experts. The dataset contains information on the voting … behavior of the council members over the period 1971-2011. The results show that the best predictor of minority voting is being … against the majority opinion of the German Council of Economic Experts. This voting pattern indicates that the channel of …
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This paper investigates the effects of the 2015 mass inflow of refugees to Germany on electoral outcomes. Specifically, using unique data on refugee populations and their type of accommodation, I analyze how local exposure to refugees affects the outcomes of the March 2016 state election - an...
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