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Direct elections and trust in state and political institutions : evidence from Indonesia's election reform
Al Izzati, Ridho; Dartanto, Teguh; Suryadarma, Daniel; … - 2024
People's trust in state and political institutions is a key foundation of a well-functioning economy. We estimate the … impact of direct elections on people's trust in state and political institutions, using a major political reform in Indonesia … the causal impact of the reform. We find that district direct elections increase trust in all state and political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512446
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A banana republic? : trust in electoral institutions in Western democracies : evidence from a presidential election in Austria
Potrafke, Niklas; Rösel, Felix - 2016
We examine the extent to which political scandals influence trust in electoral institutions in established Western … shares of the candidates. Voters’ trust in electoral institutions does not seem to depend on individual failing local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573950
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National identity under economic integration
Chiang, Chun-Fang; Liu, Jin-tan; Wen, Tsai-Wei - 2018
This study empirically investigates how economic integration influences individuals' national identity. Due to historical reasons and unique cross-strait politics, some people in Taiwan identify themselves as Chinese while others identify themselves as Taiwanese. Using individual survey data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131236
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Who is NOT voting for Brexit anymore?
Alabrese, Eleonora; Fetzer, Thiemo - 2018
Using estimates of support for Leave across UK local authority areas constructed from a comprehensive 20,000 strong survey, we show that both the level and the geographic variation capturing differential degrees of support for Leave have changed significantly since the 2016 EU referendum. A lot...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011941218
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Electoral Spillovers in an Intertwined World : Brexit Effects on the 2016 Spanish Vote
Delis, Agelos - 2018
The Brexit vote took place three days before the June 26, 2016, Spain's parliamentary elections, in which anti-systemic parties performed worse compared to the previous elections (December 2015) despite the optimistic predictions of the pre-election polls and the surge in the support for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926656
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Who is Not Voting for Brexit Anymore?
Alabrese, Eleonora - 2019
Using estimates of support for Leave across UK local authority areas constructed from a comprehensive 20,000 strong survey, we show that both the level and the geographic variation capturing differential degrees of support for Leave have changed significantly since the 2016 EU referendum. A lot...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892195
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Ideological spillovers across the Atlantic? : evidence from Trump's presidential election
Costa-Font, Joan; Ljunge, Martin - 2022
Ideological spillovers refer to the modification of an individual’s core beliefs after learning about other people's beliefs. We study one specific international ideological spillover, namely, the effect of the unexpected election of a United States (US) president (Donald Trump on the 9th of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012806515
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Ideological spillovers across the Atlantic? : evidence from Trump's presidential election
Costa-Font, Joan; Ljunge, Martin - 2022
Ideological spillovers refer to the modification of an individual's core beliefs after learning about other people's beliefs. We study one specific international ideological spillover, namely, the effect of the unexpected election of a United States (US) president (Donald Trump on the 9th of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012816310
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Ideological Spillovers Across the Atlantic? Evidence from Trump's Presidential Election
Costa-Font, Joan; Ljunge, Martin - 2022
Ideological spillovers refer to the modification of an individual’s core beliefs after learning about other people's beliefs. We study one specific international ideological spillover, namely, the effect of the unexpected election of a United States (US) president (Donald Trump on the 9th of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013307515
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Democracy, state capacity and public finance
Easaw, Joshy Z.; Leppälä, Samuli - 2019
with different intensities of democracy. Specifically, we consider the implications of political (dis)parity between the … unified framework to study the direct and indirect effects of democracy by combining state capacity investment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012137754