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Behavioral determinants of proclaimed support for environment protection policies

Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2016

protection policies depends on socio-cultural factors and political ideology. Unlike most related studies for other countries, we …, we find that some of the respondents' psychological traits are not filtered through their political ideology but directly …

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Behavioral determinants of proclaimed support for environment protection policies

Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2018

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A model of ideological thinking

Le Yaouanq, Yves - 2018

This paper develops a theory in which heterogeneity in political preferences produces a partisan disagreement about … voters' intrinsic preferences or because of rigidities in the political process. The theory predicts that providing mixed …

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Frictions to political competition and financial openness

Boukouras, Aristotelis; Koufopoulos, Kostas - 2011

In this paper we present a political economy approach in order to explain the degree of financial openness for an economy. In the model, entrepreneurs, who may have good or bad projects, vote for policies, which are proposed by selfish politicians. Two political frictions (ideological adherence...

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How do voters respond to information? : evidence from a randomized campaign

Kendall, Chad; Nannicini, Tommaso; Trebbi, Francesco - 2013

expose different areas of the polity to controlled informational treatments about the valence and ideology of the incumbent … ideology. We find that both valence and ideological messages affect the first and second moments of the belief distribution …, but only campaigning on valence brings more votes to the incumbent. With respect to ideology, cross-learning occurs, as …

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The dynamics of political myths and ideologies

Apolte, Thomas; Müller, Julia - 2019

Why do groups of even well-educated individuals sometimes persistently believe in political myths and ideologies? We follow cognition psychology in its finding that individuals sometimes stick with intuitive but false propositions. We also follow Kahneman, however, in maintaining that they...

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Whom to lobby? : targeting in political networks

Groll, Thomas; Prummer, Anja - 2016

We study lobbying in a setting in which decision-makers share resources in a network. Two opposing interest groups choose which decision-maker they want to target with their resource provision, and their decision depends on the decision-makers' ideologies as well as the network structure. We...

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Repeated lobbying by commercial lobbyists and special interests

Groll, Thomas; Ellis, Christopher J. - 2016

Using a model of repeated agency, we explain previously unexplained features of the real-world lobbying industry. Lobbying is divided between direct representation by special interests to policymakers, and indirect representation where special interests employ professional intermediaries called...

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Are environmental taxes affected by legislatures` ideological positions?

Miller, Sebastián; Vela, Mauricio - 2013

-wing ideology with environmental taxes. …

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Political competition, ideology and corruption

Boukouras, Aristotelis; Koufopoulos, Kostas - 2011

expected rents. Third, if the distribution of ideology is asymmetric, then political parties follow different platforms in …

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