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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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Topic salience and political polarization: Evidence from the German "PISA shock"
Sancassani, Pietro - 2023
Does the salience of a topic affect polarization in related parliamentary debates? When discussing a salient topic … polarization of parliamentary debates. In a difference-in-differences framework, I find that the PISA shock caused an 8.8% of a … standard deviation increase in polarization of education debates compared to other topics. The effect is long-lasting and fades …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014340636
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Topic salience and political polarization : evidence from the German "PISA shock"
Sancassani, Pietro - 2023
Does the salience of a topic affect polarization in related parliamentary debates? When discussing a salient topic … polarization of parliamentary debates. In a difference-in-differences framework, I find that the PISA shock caused an 8.8% of a … standard deviation increase in polarization of education debates compared to other topics. The effect is long-lasting and fades …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014340448
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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
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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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Immigration and electoral outcomes : evidence from the 2015 refugee inflow to Germany
Bredtmann, Julia - 2022
This paper investigates the effects of local exposure to refugees on electoral outcomes in the 2016 state election in Germany. Based on quasi-random variation in the allocation of refugees across municipalities and unique data on refugee populations and their type of accommodation, I find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013262763
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Immigration and electoral outcomes : evidence from the 2015 refugee inflow to Germany
Bredtmann, Julia - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497324
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012301926