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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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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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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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Drawing on panel data from six elections between 1998 and 2017 in Germany, we estimate the causal effect of immigration – described by Germany’s interior minister as the "mother of all political problems" – on electoral support for the far right and the far left. Our identification...
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victory of far-right Jair Bolsonaro in the 2018 presidential election. Using a shiftshare approach and exploring the … confronted with economic shocks and the prospect of Bolsonaro's election, respond by rejecting his political agenda in favor of a …
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the mayoral election in March 2020, the Bavarian state government announced an official state of emergency with measures …
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winner of the general election. …
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from 2005 to 2012, estimating six models, namely: all years, all years controlling by election type, non-electoral years … correlated effects (the role of local health infrastructure, particularly in local-election years) help to understand the …). Moreover, in election-years the positive aged people effect increases and the negative young people effect smooths. Another …
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