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Majority vote on educational standards : conference paper
Schwager, Robert - 2013 - First draft
The direct democratic choice of an examination standard, i.e., a performance level required to graduate, is evaluated …
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Majority vote on educational standards
Schwager, Robert - 2018
The direct democratic choice of an examination standard, i.e., a performance level required to graduate, is evaluated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011788763
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To Segregate or to Integrate : Education Politics and Democracy
de la Croix, David; Doepke, Matthias - 2021
The governments of nearly all countries are major providers of primary and secondary education to their citizens. In some countries, however, public schools coexist with private schools, while in others the government is the sole provider of education. In this study, we ask why different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319556
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To Segregate or to Integrate : Education Politics and Democracy
de la Croix, David; Doepke, Matthias - 2013
In most democracies, the majority of education expenditures is financed by the government. In non-democracies, we observe a wide variation in the mix of public and private funding of education. In addition, countries with high inequality tend to rely more heavily on private schooling. We develop...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050343
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The Political Economy of School Choice : Randomized School Admissions and Voter Participation
Hastings, Justine S. - 2006
We provide empirical evidence on the determinants of voter turnout using the randomized outcomes of a school choice … lottery. We show that those losing the lottery to attend their first-choice school are significantly more likely to vote in … the ensuing school board election than lottery winners. The effect of losing the school choice lottery on voting is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012734322
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Majority Vote on Educational Standards
Schwager, Robert - 2018
The direct democratic choice of an examination standard, i.e., a performance level required to graduate, is evaluated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012925249
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The Median Voter Data Set : Voter Preferences across 50 Democracies from 1945
De Neve, Jan‐Emmanuel - 2009
The median voter, or the ideological position of the electoral center, has fi gured widely across literatures. This paper introduces a median voter data set that allows for comparison across time and across countries. The data set employs the statistics provided by the Comparative Manifesto...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012718973
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On some of the consequences of being possible to call early elections
Caleiro, António - 2005
This note presents some of the consequences due to the possibility of having early elections. First of all, elections, whether exogenously or endogenously determined, are relevant to challenge the well known neutrality principle of economic policies under rational expectations. Furthermore, in...
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The political economy of commitment to policies
Delfgaauw, Josse; Swank, Otto H. - 2023
IPCC (2022) documents a looming gap between climate goals and implemented policies and points to a lack of political commitment. We study policymakers' incentives to commit. A policymaker decides on a policy to encourage citizens to make investments and determines the degree of flexibility to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014369623
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Voting on labour-market integration and education policy when citizens differ in mobility and ability
Haupt, Alexander; Übelmesser, Silke - 2009
We analyse how institutional and political decisions are intertwined. Citizens who differ in their mobility and ability vote first on labour market integration and afterwards on education policy. The institutional decision on integration influences the succeeding education policy. More...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003818041