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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010213030
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Electoral competition and endogenous political institutions : quasi-experimental evidence from Germany
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Lopes da Fonseca, Mariana - 2015
Do established parties change political institutions to disadvantage smaller, nonmainstream parties if the latters ́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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010505165
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Electoral competition and endogenous political institutions : quasi-experimental evidence from Germany ; conference paper
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Lopes da Fonseca, Mariana - 2014
Do established parties change political institutions to disadvantage smaller, non-mainstream parties if the latters' 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010484319
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Electoral Competition and Endogenous Political Institutions : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Germany
Lopes da Fonseca, Mariana - 2015
Do established parties change political institutions to disadvantage smaller, non-mainstream parties if the latters' 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024654
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Sharing competences : the impact of local institutional settings on voter turnout
Michelsen, Claus; Bönisch, Peter; Rosenfeld, Martin T. W. - 2010
of voting systems, like the impact of compulsory voting or registration systems. Fewer efforts have been devoted to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009127460
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The political economy of populism : an agenda-theoretic approach with special reference to Germany
Heise, Arne - 2023
Populism in modern Western democracies is on the rise. The existing literature concentrates on explanations based on the growing socio-economic and socio-cultural polarisation of modern societies driven by globalisation and individualisation on the one hand and the unresponsiveness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014305145
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Terrorism and voting : the rise of right-wing populism in Germany
Sabet, Navid; Liebald, Marius; Friebel, Guido - 2023
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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014364725
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Media's Role in the Making of a Democrat: Evidence from East Germany
Friehe, Tim; Müller, Helge; Neumeier, Florian - 2019
This paper explores the causal influence of media content on voting behavior. We exploit a natural experiment involving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018176
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Minority positions in the German council of economic experts : a political economic analysis
Potrafke, Niklas - 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009732996
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Do Parties Punish MPs for Voting against the Party Line?
Kauder, Bjoern - 2017
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012953695