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Ready to Reform: How Popular Initiatives Can Be Successful

Hofer, Katharina Eva; Marti, Christian; Bütler, Monika - 2015

We study whether the number of signatures collected to qualify a popular initiative affects the probability of reforming the status quo. The initiative process is modeled as a sequential game under uncertainty: petitioners make an entry decision and collect signatures to qualify the initiative....

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Blackmailing Lobbyists

Schneider, Maik - 2010

We examine lobby influence on policy outcomes in a legislative vote-buying model with two competing lobbyists and endogenous policy proposals. We compare two polar cases: (1) the committee or (2) the lobbyist seeking policy change writes the bill. Surprisingly we find that if the salience of the...

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Political competition and support for agriculture

Fałkowski, Jan; Olper, Alessandro - 2010

This paper investigates whether political competition plays an important role in determining the level of agricultural protection. In order to do so, we exploit variation in political and economic data from 74 developing and developed countries for the post-war period. Our results robustly show...

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Incentives dominate selection: Chamber-changing legislators are driven by electoral rules and voter preferences

Portmann, Marco; Stadelmann, David; Eichenberger, Reiner - 2019

The role of electoral incentives vs. selection is ideally analyzed in a setting where the same legislators are selected to decide on policies under different electoral rules and where voter preferences on policies can be precisely measured. This is the first paper to look at such a situation....

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"The mother of all political problems''? On asylum seekers and elections in Germany

Tomberg, Lukas; Smith Stegen, Karen; Vance, Colin - 2019

magnitude of this effect is found to be independent of the unemployment level. For the left, the positive effect of asylum … seekers tapers off with increases in unemployment, eventually becoming negative. The results suggest that the confluence of … high unemployment and high immigration would tilt the electoral landscape in Germany to the right. …

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Compulsory Voting, Voter Turnout and Asymmetrical Habit-formation

Gäbler, Stefanie; Potrafke, Niklas; Rösel, Felix - 2017

We examine whether compulsory voting (CV) influences habit-formation in voting asymmetrically across parties. We use a Differences-in-Differences and a Differences-in-Discontinuity approach to investigate the long-term effects of CV on turnout and party vote shares in Austria. The results show...

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Information, perceived education level, and attitudes toward refugees: Evidence from a randomized survey experiment

Simon, Lisa; Piopiunik, Marc; Lergetporer, Philipp - 2017

From 2014 onwards, Europe has witnessed an unprecedented influx of refugees. We conducted a survey experiment with almost 5,000 university students in Germany in which we randomly shifted the perception of refugees’ education level through information provision. We find that the perceived...

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#EleNão: Economic crisis, the political gender gap, and the election of Bolsonaro

Santos Silva, Manuel; Diniz Penteado de Barros, Laura - 2020

After more than one decade of sustained economic growth, accompanied by falling poverty and inequality, Brazil has been hit by an economic recession starting in 2014. This paper investigates the consequences of this labor market shock for the victory of far-right Jair Bolsonaro in the 2018...

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Political (self-)selection and competition: Evidence from U.S. Congressional elections

Bose, Paul - 2021

How does competition affect the entry and selection of politicians? I use data on U.S. Congressional primary and general elections for the years 1998-2014 to study this question. I measure quality using previous legislative experience and the novel "identity match" quantifying how well...

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Lack of Substantive Representation in Europe: Causes and Consequences

Günther, Laurenz; Günther, Laurenz - 2022

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