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Quality of local public good provision and rlectoral support
Stöhlker, Daniel - 2019
new insights into the link between local governmental spending and voting behavior. …
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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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Who is the ultimate boss of legislators : voters, special interest groups or parties?
Stadelmann, David; Torrens, Gustavo - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012425941
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Local electoral rules and political participation
Barone, Guglielmo; De Blasio, Guido - 2010
The paper investigates the effect of local electoral rules on the political participation of the residents, as … reflected in voter turnout. It focuses on Italy, where municipal voting schemes are differentiated by the size of the city: a … participation. The magnitude of the effect is estimated at between 1 and 3 percentage points. …
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Institutions, civil society, trust and quality of life : a social capital- and social identity-based approach : evidence from the Russian Federation
Sechi, Guido; Tatarko, Alexander; Šķilters, Jurǵis - 2014
Many scholars, since the early 2000s, advocate for the integration of institutionalist and communitarian views of social capital generation in order to explain civil society dynamics, in particular in countries ? such as former communist states - characterized by transitional processes, with a...
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The impact of election information shocks on populist party preferences : evidence from Germany
Gerling, Lena; Kellermann, Kim Leonie - 2019
This paper investigates the effect of aggregate-level information shocks regarding support for a populist right-wing party on the individual disposition to report a respective political preference in survey interviews. Despite controversial debates about the social acceptability of its...
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Why echo chambers are useful
Jann, Ole; Schottmuller, Christoph - 2019
Why do people appear to forgo information by sorting into “echo chambers”? We construct a highly tractable multi-sender, multi-receiver cheap talk game in which players choose with whom to communicate. We show that segregation into small, homogeneous groups can improve everybody’s...
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Does the usage of TV streaming on the internet bring about new functions to the public service broadcaster? : evidence from a randomized field experiment
Kuroda, Toshifumi; Kido, Daido; Ichikawa, Yoshiharu - 2016
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A separate monitoring organ and disclosure of firm-specific information
Wu, Zhenyu; Li, Yuanshun; Ding, Shujun; Jia, Chunxin - In: The European journal of finance 22 (2016) 4/6, pp. 371-392
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Voting with public information
Liu, Shuo - In: Games and economic behavior 113 (2019), pp. 694-719
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