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Temptation in Vote-Selling: Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Philippines
Hicken, Allen; Leider, Stephen G.; Ravanilla, Nico; … - 2014
-vote-selling intervention in the Philippines. We model selling one's vote as a temptation good: it creates positive utility for the future self … at the moment of voting, but not for past selves who anticipate the vote-sale. We also allow keeping or breaking promises … regarding vote-selling to affect utility. Voters who are at least partially sophisticated about their vote-selling temptation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398524
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Temptation in vote-selling : evidence from a field experiment in the Philippines
Hicken, Allen; Leider, Stephen; Ravanilla, Nico; Yang, Dean - 2014
-vote-selling intervention in the Philippines. We model selling one's vote as a temptation good: it creates positive utility for the future self … at the moment of voting, but not for past selves who anticipate the vote-sale. We also allow keeping or breaking promises … regarding vote-selling to affect utility. Voters who are at least partially sophisticated about their vote-selling temptation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010361472
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Temptation in Vote-Selling: Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Philippines
Hicken, Allen; Leider, Stephen G.; Ravanilla, Nico; … - CESifo - 2014
-vote-selling intervention in the Philippines. We model selling one’s vote as a temptation good: it creates positive utility for the future self … at the moment of voting, but not for past selves who anticipate the vote-sale. We also allow keeping or breaking promises … regarding vote-selling to affect utility. Voters who are at least partially sophisticated about their vote-selling temptation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010781543
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Who Supports Portable Assessment Caps? The Role of Lock-Ins, Tax Share, and Mobility
Cheung, Ron; Cunningham, Chris R. - 2010
We examine voter support in 2008 for Constitutional Amendment 1 in Florida, which modifies a Proposition 13–like property assessment growth cap by allowing homeowners to port their exempted value to a new home. Despite claims by amendment proponents that it would lower property taxes, we do...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292270
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Does Immigration into Their Neighborhoods Incline Voters Toward the Extreme Right? The Case of the Freedom Party of Austria
Halla, Martin; Wagner, Alexander F.; Zweimüller, Josef - 2012
This paper explores one potentially important channel through which immigration may drive support for extreme right-wing parties: the presence of immigrants in one's neighborhood. We study the case of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). Under the leadership of Jörg Haider, this party increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294847
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Does Immigration into Their Neighborhoods Incline Voters Toward the Extreme Right? The Case of the Freedom Party of Austria
Halla, Martin; Wagner, Alexander F.; Zweimüller, Josef - 2012
This paper explores one potentially important channel through which immigration may drive support for extreme right-wing parties: the presence of immigrants in one's neighborhood. We study the case of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). Under the leadership of Jörg Haider, this party increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310759
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Immigration and voting for the extreme right
Halla, Martin; Wagner, Alexander F.; Zweimüller, Josef - 2012
features of the history of immigration into Austria to identify a causal effect of immigration on ERW voting results. We argue …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332038
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Who Runs? Honesty and Self-Selection into Politics
Fehrler, Sebastian; Fischbacher, Urs; Schneider, Maik T. - 2016
We examine the incentives to self-select into politics and how they depend on the transparency of the entry process. To this end, we set up a two-stage political competition model and test its key mechanisms in the lab. At the entry stage, potential candidates compete in a contest to become...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559686
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Exposure to refugees and voting for the far-right: (Unexpected) results from Austria
Steinmayr, Andreas - 2016
An important concern about the surge in the number of refugees arriving in Europe is increased support for far-right, nationalist, anti-immigration parties. This paper studies a natural experiment in an Austrian federal state to identify the causal effect of exposure to refugees in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011630393
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Who Voted for Brexit? A Comprehensive District-Level Analysis
Becker, Sascha O.; Fetzer, Thiemo; Novy, Dennis - 2017
voting population were key drivers of the Vote Leave share, in particular their education profiles, their historical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011657159