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Europa wählt: Wen interessiert's und warum? Einstellungen der Deutschen zur EU-Wahl und Europapolitik
Diermeier, Matthias; Niehues, Judith; Sultan, Samina - 2024
Die vorliegende Studie zeigt auf Basis der IW-Personenbefragung 2024, dass rund 62 Prozent der Deutschen die Wahl des …This study, based on the IW-People Survey 2024, shows that around 62% of Germans consider the election of the European …
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Public servants in parliament: Theory and evidence on its determinants in Germany
Stutzer, Alois; Braendle, Thomas - 2009
This paper addresses the personal linkages between the public service and the legislature that emerge because public servants pursue a political mandate. There are concerns that the strong representation of public servants in many Western parliaments compromises the constitutionally proposed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428802
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Vulnerability and Bargaining Power in EU-Russia Gas Relations
Christie, Edward Hunter; Bev, Pavel K.; Golovko, Volodymyr - 2011
This report contains three separate papers, each addressing selected issues concerning natural gas policy and security of gas supply in Europe. The over-arching themes are vulnerability (to supply disruptions, to supplier pricing power) and fragmentation; and measures designed to overcome them,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345633
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Die AfD: Eine unterschätzte Partei. Soziale Erwünschtheit als Erklärung für fehlerhafte Prognosen
Bergmann, Knut; Diermeier, Matthias - 2017
Ergebnissen kommen und darüber hinaus, dass sich Gründe und Muster für die AfD-Wahl nur schwer identifizieren lassen - was den …Brexit, Trump and the AfD - a couple of referendum and election outcomes in the recent past have been erroneously … more, simple refusal to answer and the difficult demoscopic handling of protest voters hinder the accuracy of AfD election …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011633471
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Machtverteilung nach Wahlen: Eine spieltheoretische Analyse der Wahlergebnisse in Schleswig-Holstein und Nordrhein-Westfalen
Rusche, Christian - 2017
Verhandlungsposition einer Partei zwischen Wahl und Beginn von Koalitionsverhandlungen (ex-ante) wird in diesem Report anhand des Shapley …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011660553
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Wahlbeteiligung in Europa
Kolev, Galina V. - 2019
Am 25. und 26. Mai ist Europa-Wahl. Wenn sich die Tendenz aus den letzten vier Jahrzehnten fortsetzt, wird die Mehrheit …On May 25 and 26 is European Parliament election. According to the trend over the last four decades, most of the voters … the low election turnout. Political-economic explanations related to the principal-agent problem at EU level also play an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012011075
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The Role of Information for Public Preferences on Education - Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments
Werner, Katharina - 2019
The aim of this doctoral project is an empirical analysis of questions concerning economics of education, in particular education policy. The first key aspect is the relationship between public opinion and the level of information of the population. As part of this, a first research project...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019190
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Democratic support and corruption: Lessons from East Europe
Enste, Dominik; Acht, Martin - 2018
It has been recognized that the support for democracy seems to be increasing with the time spent in a democratic system. An individual's life experience living under democratic rule positively affects the support for democracy as a political system. Therefore it seemed inevitable that the newly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931195
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(Mis-)information technology: Internet use and perception of democracy in Africa
Cariolle, Joël; Elkhateeb, Yasmine; Maurel, Mathilde - 2023
The Internet has significantly expanded worldwide, changing our relationship with the world, and the way we communicate, educate, and inform ourselves. Africa, despite having a very low number of fixed-broadband subscriptions for 100 inhabitants, has not escaped the Internet phenomenon, as the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014546861
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Learning, voting and the information trap
Berentsen, Aleksander; Bruegger, Esther; Loertscher, Simon - 2005
We consider a median voter model with uncertainty about how the economy functions. The distribution of income is exogenously given and the provision of a public good is financed through a proportional tax. Voters and politicians do not know the true production function for the public good, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428772