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Deutschland (AfD), the major anti-immigrant party in the 2017 German parliamentary election. The classic theory on the political … jobs, housing and public goods. Notably, the vote distribution in the 2017 election suggests that AfD vote shares are … higher in districts with fewer foreign inhabitants. We exploit administrative data on election results and district …
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an event-study approach which links election information shocks provided by official results of state-level elections in … conducted closely around state elections, we show that individual exposure to positive election information shocks significantly …
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Politicians have multiple principals. We investigate the weights that politicians put on the revealed preferences of their constituents, special interest groups and party when deciding on legislative proposals. Preferences of constituents, special interest groups and parties are directly...
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previous elections increases pre-election capital spending, on the other hand, its winning margin works in the opposite …
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Taiwanese presidential election in 2016 and analyze features of successful messages with an extremely great number of likes and …
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In Romania, the 2008 local elections were held based on a new electoral law. The main changes concerned the election of …
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This paper investigates the occurrence and patterns of economic voting in the 2006 election for the Chamber of Deputies …
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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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