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excluded from the voters' right of the initiative? I study this question by extending the analysis to German direct democracy … 2009, I show that in this sample and in contrast to the Swiss and US evidence direct democracy causes an expansion of local … towards exploiting their direct democracy rights and their preferences for local public policies. To address this issue I use …
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deal with questions related to direct democracy, chapters three and four are about topics linked to representative … democracy. …
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The paper estimates the policy representation of 34 German parties that participate in the 2017 Bundestag (federal) election. For this purpose, the party positions on 31 topical issues are compared with the results of recent public opinion polls. Then we construct the party indices of popularity...
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The paper estimates the policy representation of 34 German parties that have participated in the 2017 Bundestag (federal) election. For this purpose, the party positions on 31 topical issues are compared with the results of recent public opinion polls. Then we construct the party indices of...
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separate papers, the first four investigate the effectiveness of active labor market policy in Germany using various estimation … participation in training. Chapter 6 investigates the determinants of Islamophobia from the economic perspective. The referendum … that was held in Switzerland in 2009 and led to the ban on the construction of minarets offers a unique opportunity to …
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