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Radio and the rise of Nazi in pre-war Germany : conference paper
Adena, Maja; Enikolopov, Ruben; Petrova, Maria; … - 2013
the change of radio content to heavy pro-Nazi propaganda. In the last few months that Germany remained democracy, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340608
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Political Regimes, Investment and Electoral Uncertainty
Marcelin, Isaac - 2019
This study looks at firms' investment spending in fixed and intangible assets around three types of national elections: presidential, joint presidential, and legislative and parliamentary elections. Investments in fixed assets decline by up to 2% during presidential elections, and 4.44% in joint...
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Benevolent planners, malevolent dictators and democratic voters
Agell, Jonas (contributor); Persson, Mats (contributor) - 2006
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Economic voting and economic revolutionizing? : the economics of incumbency changes in European democracies and revolutionary events in the Arab World
Möller, Marie - 2011
; Degree of Democracy ; Dictatorship …
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The political costs of oil price shocks
Arezki, Rabah; Djankov, Simeon; Nguyen, Ha; Yotzov, Ivan - 2022
We explore the effect of oil import price shocks on political outcomes using a worldwide dataset on elections of chief executives. Oil import price shocks cause a reduction in the odds of reelection of incumbents, an increase in media chatter about fuel prices, and an increase in non-violent...
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Good policy choices even when voters entertain biased beliefs : a model with endogenous valence
Bischoff, Ivo; Siemers, Lars - 2008
voting. In so doing, we provide an investigation of when good policies are chosen in democracy. Based on our findings, we …
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A Banana Republic? Trust in Electoral Institutions in Western Democracies - Evidence from a Presidential Election in Austria
Potrafke, Niklas - 2017
We examine the extent to which political scandals influence trust in electoral institutions in established Western democracies. The second ballot of the 2016 Presidential election in Austria needed to be repeated because of inconsistencies in individual electoral districts (scandal districts)....
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Quadratic Voting : How Mechanism Design Can Radicalize Democracy
Lalley, Steven - 2017
Can mechanism design save democracy? We propose a simple design that offers a chance: individuals pay for as many votes ….The online appendix for "Quadratic Voting: How Mechanism Design Can Radicalize Democracy" may be found here: 'http …
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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...
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The trade-off between deepening and broadening of democracy : lessons from youth enfranchisement
Koukal, Anna Maria; Schafer, Patricia; Eichenberger, Reiner - 2020
Broadening democracy by lowering the voting age is on the political agenda in many democratic societies. Previous … democracy proxied by the strength of direct democratic institutions and (ii) the size of the new electorate. Our results provide … democracy and affects citizens' willingness to lower the voting age. Moreover, we find systematic price reactions of present …
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