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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212799
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Business and government in electricity network integration in Western Europe, c.1900-1950
Millward, Robert - In: Business History 48 (2006) 4, pp. 479-500
, municipalities were more common and were resistant to mergers and network development. Several national networks had emerged by the …
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Infrastructure, institutions and identity - Determinants of regional development: Empirical evidence from Germany
Gäbler, Stefanie - 2020
Stefanie Gäbler prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for Public Finance and Political Economy. The study was completed in March 2020 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It consists of six distinct empirical essays...
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Diffusion and upscaling of municipal climate mitigation and adaptation strategies in Germany
Kern, Kristine; Eckersley, Peter; Haupt, Wolfgang - In: Regional Environmental Change 23 (2023) 1, pp. 1-12
depends on interventions by national and subnational authorities, we stress that the majority of German municipalities require …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010501783
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010501266
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The influence of management accounting departments within German municipal administrations
Hirsch, Bernhard; Nitzl, Christian; Schauß, Joachim - In: Financial accountability & management : in governments, … 31 (2015) 2, pp. 192-218
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Does accrual accounting improve municipalities' efficiency? : evidence from Germany
Lampe, H. W.; Hilgers, Dennis; Ihl, C. - In: Applied economics 47 (2015) 40/42, pp. 4349-4363
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How well can the migration component of regional population change be predicted? : a machine learning approach applied to German municipalities
Weber, Hannes - In: Comparative population studies : CPoS ; open acess … 45 (2020), pp. 143-178
migration (both within-country as well as international migration) at the level of municipalities for two demographic groups … municipalities (Gemeinden). The model is trained on a subset of these data from the period 2005-2009 and predicts net migration rates …
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Does highway accessibility influence local tax factors? : evidence from German municipalities
Dörr, Luisa; Gäbler, Stefanie - 2020
Germany since 1945. For non-agglomeration municipalities that lie on a convenient route between two larger cities the access … that highway access influences local tax setting in municipalities within 5 to 10 km road distance. Improved accessibility … increases property tax factors persistently by roughly 6 percentage points. Our effects are driven by peripheral municipalities …
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