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Anti‐elite politics and emotional reactions to socio‐economic problems : experimental evidence on "pocketbook anger" from France, Germany, and the United States
Marx, Paul - 2019
Many observers have noticed the importance of anger in contemporary politics, particularly with reference to populism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012006185
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Predicting United States Policy Outcomes with Random Forests
McGuire, Shawn K.; Delahunt, Charles - 2020
Two decades of U.S. government legislative outcomes, as well as the policy preferences of high-income people, the general population, and diverse interest groups, were captured in a detailed dataset curated and analyzed by Gilens, Page et al. (2014). They found that the preferences of...
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Hurricanes, climate change policies and electoral accountability
Gagliarducci, Stefano; Paserman, Marco Daniele; … - 2019
This paper studies how politicians and voters respond to new information on the threats of climate change. Using data on the universe of federal disaster declarations between 1989 and 2014, we document that congress members from districts hit by a hurricane are more likely to support bills...
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The scientist and the church
Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The April 21, 2005 issue of the LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS carried a lead article titled ‘Blood for Oil?’ The paper is attributed to a group of writers and activists – Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews and Michael Watts – who identify themselves by the collective name ‘Retort.’ In...
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Obamacare and Environmental Production Efficiency Rankings for the 50 U.S. State Governments : A Data Envelopment Analysis of Health Outcomes from Environmental Factors and State H...
Feroz, Ehsan H. - 2018
This paper examines the health performance rankings of the 50 U.S. state governments (SGs), and addresses the relationship between SG performance rankings and SG environmental health, economic prosperity, and state healthcare policy. We use the data envelopment analysis (DEA) to estimate and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012933965
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The Effect of Inequality on Redistribution : An Econometric Analysis
Boskin, Michael J.; Elnahal, Kareem; Zhang, Adam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Using data on U.S. state and federal taxes and transfers over a quarter century, we estimate a regression model that yields the marginal effect of any shift of market income share from one quintile to another on the entire post tax, post-transfer income distribution. We identify exogenous income...
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Left-behind vs. unequal places : interpersonal inequality, economic decline, and the rise of populism in the US and Europe
Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Terrero-Dávila, Javier; Lee, Neil - 2023
interpersonal and interterritorial inequality. This rising inequality is seen as a root cause of populism. Yet, there is no … interpersonal inequality, and the rise of far-right populism in Europe and in the US. The analysis -conducted at small region level … minorities shunned populism. In Europe, the most significant factor behind the rise of far-right populism is economic decline …
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Unemployment, immigration, and populism : evidence from two quasi-natural experimentsin the United States
Chen, Shuai - 2020
populism in the United States. Specifically, I exploit two quasi-natural experiments, the Great Recession and the 2014 Northern … populism and populist voting in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. I discover that recent unemployment during the Great … wealthy elites by 15 percentage points. Such attitudes are connected with left-wing populism. I identify perceived economic …
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Running the U.S. economy at full throttle is a stressful variant of capitalism
Komlos, John - 2022
, and by the rise of populism, creating many mental, biological, social, economic, and political quandaries. …
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