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Do Parties Punish MPs for Voting against the Party Line?
Kauder, Björn - 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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Do parties punish MPs for voting against the party line?
Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas; Riem, Marina - 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/10011659465
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Cui Bono, Benefit Corporation? An Experiment Inspired by Social Enterprise Legislation in Germany and the US (Preprint Version)
Fischer, Sven - 2016
How do barely incentivized norms impact incentive-rich environments? We take social enterprise legislation as a case in point. It establishes rules on behalf of constituencies that have no institutionalized means of enforcing them. By relying primarily on managers' other-regarding concerns...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013007643
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Goals (Th)at Work – Goals, Monetary Incentives, and Workers’ Performance
Goerg, Sebastian J. - 2012
In a randomized field experiment, we investigate the connection between work goals, monetary incentives, and work performance. Employees are observed in a natural work environment where they have to do a simple, but effort-intense task. Output is perfectly observable and workers are paid for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099561
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Cui bono, benefit corporation? : an experiment inspired by social enterprise legislation in Germany and the US
Fischer, Sven Heiko; Goerg, Sebastian J.; Hamann, Hanjo - 2013 - This version: February 8, 2013
How do barely incentivized norms impact incentive-rich environments? We take social enterprise legislation as a case in point. It establishes rules on behalf of constituencies that have no institutionalized means of enforcing them. By relying primarily on managers' other-regarding concerns...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009706164
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Goals (th)at work : goals, monetary incentives, and workers' performance
Goerg, Sebastian J.; Kube, Sebastian - 2012
In a randomized field experiment, we investigate the connection between work goals, monetary incentives, and work performance. Employees are observed in a natural work environment where they have to do a simple, but effort-intense task. Output is perfectly observable and workers are paid for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009627350
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The indirect effects of direct democracy: Local government size and non-budgetary voter initiatives
Asatryan, Zareh - 2014
, nor the responsibility of voting on the implied costs of these initiatives. By exploiting a novel dataset containing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329225
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The indirect effects of direct democracy: Local government size and non-budgetary voter initiatives
Asatryan, Zareh - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
, nor the responsibility of voting on the implied costs of these initiatives. By exploiting a novel dataset containing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957753
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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