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The partisan effects of voter turnout: How conservatives profit from rainy election days
Arnold, Felix; Freier, Ronny - 2015
In this short note, we use data from different elections in the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia between 1975 and … 2010 to show that the social democrats generally profit from higher voter turnout at the expense of the conservatives. We … deal with the endogeneity of voter turnout by using election day rain as an instrumental variable. Our particular …
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The partisan effects of voter turnout : how conservatives profit from rainy election days
Arnold, Felix; Freier, Ronny - 2015 - This version: March 23, 2015
In this short note, we use data from different elections in the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia between 1975 and … 2010 to show that the social democrats generally profit from higher voter turnout at the expense of the conservatives. We … deal with the endogeneity of voter turnout by using election day rain as an instrumental variable. Our particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010501266
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The Partisan Effects of Voter Turnout: How Conservatives Profit from Rainy Election Days
Arnold, Felix; Freier, Ronny - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015
In this short note, we use data from different elections in the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia between 1975 and … 2010 to show that the social democrats generally profit from higher voter turnout at the expense of the conservatives. We … deal with the endogeneity of voter turnout by using election day rain as an instrumental variable. Our particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212799
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Terrorism and voting : the rise of right-wing populism in Germany
Sabet, Navid; Liebald, Marius; Friebel, Guido - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013348587
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Four decades of municipal bailouts in Germany
Person, Christian; Geißler, René - In: Local public finance : an international comparative …, (pp. 227-245). 2021
Despite the existence of strict budgetary frameworks and fiscal equalisation systems, municipal budget crisis has been a phenomenon in Germany for decades. As an institutional response, most German states implemented bailouts to restore local public finances. This chapter gives a brief...
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Concurrent elections and turnout : causal estimates from a German quasi-experiment
Garmann, Sebastian - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 126 (2016) 1, pp. 167-178
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Do political parties matter? : evidence from German municipalities
Riedel, Nadine; Simmler, Martin; Wittrock, Christian - In: German economic review : GER 22 (2021) 2, pp. 153-198
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Electoral cycles in public administration decisions : evidence from German municipalities
Garmann, Sebastian - In: Regional studies 51 (2017) 5, pp. 712-723
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Does highway access influence local employment? : evidence from German municipalities
Dörr, Luisa; Gäbler, Stefanie - 2022
We examine how highway accessibility influences local employment outcomes. We exploit the stagewise expansion of the "Baltic Sea highway", the largest contiguous highway construction project in Germany since 1945. Results from difference-indifferences estimations and an event study approach show...
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Grüne und AfD als neue Gegenpole der gesellschaftlichen Spaltung in Deutschland
Franz, Christian; Fratzscher, Marcel; Kritikos, Alexander - In: DIW Wochenbericht 86 (2019) 34, pp. 591-602
Die Europawahl 2019 hat in Deutschland markante regionale Unterschiede im Wahlverhalten aufgezeigt. Im Vergleich zur Bundestagswahl verzeichnen vor allem die Grünen starke Stimmengewinne in westdeutschen Kreisen, während die AfD ihren Erfolg in den ostdeutschen Kreisen konsolidieren kann....
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