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At opposite poles : how the success of the Green Party and AfD reflects the geographical and social cleavages in Germany
Franz, Christian; Fratzscher, Marcel; Kritikos, Alexander - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 34, pp. 289-300
German voters in the 2019 European election showed remarkable regional differences in their voting behavior. The Green …
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German right-wing party AfD finds more support in rural areas with aging populations
Franz, Christian; Fratzscher, Marcel; Kritikos, Alexander - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 8 (2018) 7/8, pp. 69-79
Since June 15, 2017, mobile network operators in the European Economic Area may not impose surcharges for making telephone calls, sending text messages, or using data services in other EEA countries. The regulation was designed to create a digital domestic market without adversely affecting...
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Dancing with the Populist : new parties, electoral rules and Italian municipal elections
Bordignon, Massimo; Colussi, Tommaso - 2020
This paper develops a theoretical framework that makes predictions on (a) the conditions under which a populist party decides to run and the policy position it takes and (b) voters' response under different electoral systems. We test these predictions using data on Italian municipal elections...
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The successful Ghana election of 2008 : a convenient myth? ; ethnicity in Ghana's elections revisited
Jockers, Heinz; Kohnert, Dirk; Nugent, Paul - 2009
. Unfortunate diplomatic and technocratic biases in election monitoring, combined with a reluctance on the part of the responsible … dangerous time bomb of unresolved conflict which could explode in future elections. -- elections ; ethnicity ; election …
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Just hire your spouse! : evidence from a political scandal in Bavaria
Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - 2014
employees who were paid using taxpayers' money. We examine whether being involved in the scandal influenced re-election … of the 2013 state elections. We propose three explanations: (i) the Bavarian state election was a test run for the German … federal election; (ii) the state government made a quite good job of clarifying failings; (iii) in June 2013, a very heavy …
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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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Vote buying or campaign promises? : electoral strategies when party credibility is limited
Hanusch, Marek; Keefer, Philip; Vlaicu, Razvan - 2016
What explains significant variation across countries in the use of vote buying instead of campaign promises to secure voter support? This paper explicitly models the tradeoff parties face between engaging in vote buying and making campaign promises, and explores the distributional consequences...
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Incumbent advantage, voter information and vote buying
Cruz, Cesi; Keefer, Philip; Labonne, Julien - 2016
Results from a new experiment shed light on the effects of voter information on vote buying and incumbent advantage. The treatment provided voters with information about a major spending program and the proposed allocations and promises of mayoral candidates just prior to municipal elections. It...
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Just hire your spouse! : evidence from a political scandal in Bavaria
Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - 2014
state and federal elections. We examine whether being involved in the scandal influenced re-election prospects and voter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010459205
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The partisan effects of voter turnout : how conservatives profit from rainy election days
Arnold, Felix; Freier, Ronny - 2015 - This version: March 23, 2015
deal with the endogeneity of voter turnout by using election day rain as an instrumental variable. Our particular …
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