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Partisan Interactions : Evidence from a Field Experiment in the United States
Perez-Truglia, Ricardo; Cruces, Guillermo - 2015
Since campaign contributions reveal the actor’s party leanings, they take place in a domain of social observation and are likely to be subject to social effects. We conducted a field experiment to identify some of these social effects. We sent letters to 92,000 contributors from all U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014146325
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Monetary Policy Committees: meetings and outcomes
Berk, Jan Marc; Bierut, Beata K. - 2009
Monetary Policy Committees differ in the way the interest rate proposal is prepared and presented in the policy meeting …. In this paper we show analytically how different arrangements could affect the voting behaviour of individual MPC members …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605116
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Knowledge is power: A theory of information, income, and welfare spending
Lind, Jo Thori; Rohner, Dominic - 2011
informed than others. We develop a model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of …. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316941
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Correcting Mistakes: Cognitive Dissonance and Political Attitudes in Sweden and the United States
Elinder, Mikael - 2009
Cognitive dissonance theory predicts that the act of voting makes people more positive toward the party or candidate … turnout provided by the voting age restriction. I improve on previous studies by investigating political attitudes, measured … just before elections, when they are highly predictive of voting. In contrast to earlier studies I find no effect of voting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320412
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Correcting mistakes: Cognitive dissonance and political attitudes in Sweden and the United States
Elinder, Mikael - 2009
Cognitive dissonance theory predicts that the act of voting makes people more positive toward the party or candidate … turnout provided by the voting age restriction. I improve on previous studies by investigating political attitudes, measured … just before elections, when they are highly predictive of voting. In contrast to earlier studies I find no effect of voting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321449
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Knowledge is power: A theory of information, income, and welfare spending
Lind, Jo Thori; Rhoner, Dominic - 2011
informed than others. We develop a model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of …. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in a ecting voting behavior for more informed voters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330258
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US-Präsidentschaftswahlen 2016: Der Einfluss soziodemografischer, ökonomischer und kultureller Faktoren auf Trumps Wahlerfolg
Stoetzer, Matthias-Wolfgang; Munder, Alexander; Steger, … - 2019
Der bereits erstaunliche Erfolg von Donald Trump als Präsidentschaftskandidat der Republikaner wurde durch seinen völlig überraschenden Sieg gegen Hillary Clinton 2016 noch einmal übertroffen. Entsprechend groß sind die Bemühungen theoretisch und empirisch diese Wahlentscheidung der...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054819
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Rational choice and voter turnout: Evidence from union representation elections
Farber, Henry S. - 2010
receive utility from the act of voting. However, this leaves open the question of whether or not there is a significant margin … consideration of the likelihood that they will be pivotal. Among the remainder, the probability of voting is related to variables …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269935
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Peer effects on the United States Supreme Court
Holden, Richard; Keane, Michael P.; Lilley, Matthew - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 12 (2021) 3, pp. 981-1019
Using data on essentially every U.S. Supreme Court decision since 1946, we estimate a model of peer effects on the Court. We estimate the impact of justice ideology and justice votes on the votes of their peers. To identify the peer effects, we use two instruments that generate plausibly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012598532
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'Green' Voting and Ideology : Lcv Scores and Roll-Call Voting in the U.S. Senate, 1988-1998
Nelson, Jon Paul - 2013
This study evaluates the roles of ideology, constituency, and political party for roll-call voting in the U.S. Senate … on a broad set of environmental issues. The study estimates a model of political support using voting scores from the … for voting profiles on environmental issues; and party affiliation and regional loyalty explain about 74% of measured …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014119858