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Is demonstrating against the far right worth it? : evidence from French presidential elections

Lagios, Nicolas; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume; Tojerow, Ilan - 2022

We study the electoral impact of protesting against the far right by investigating the demonstrations held during the 2002 French presidential elections against far-right candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen. Instrumenting rally attendance with rainfall while factoring in that some municipalities never...

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Voice of the diaspora: An analysis of migrant voting behavior

Fidrmuc, Jan; Doyle, Orla - 2005

This paper utilizes a unique dataset on votes cast by Czech and Polish migrants in recent national elections in their home countries. The political preferences of migrants as manifested by their voting behavior are strikingly different from those of their home-country counterparts. In addition,...

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Determinants of the influence of voters and interest groups on the political decision making process

Bischoff, Ivo - 2001

try to win the election with as little concessions as possible. The efficient amount of concessions and their distribution … efficient amount of concessions depends on the closeness of the election race. The closer the initial distribution of votes, the …

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Voter Reaction to Government Incompetence and Corruption Related to the 1999 Earthquakes in Turkey

Akarca, Ali T.; Tansel, Aysit - 2015

incompetence. How voters responded to these in the next election held in 2002 is investigated. The fact that different group of …

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Happiness before and after an election: An analysis based on a daily survey around Japan's 2009 election

Kinari, Yusuke; Ohtake, Fumio; Kimball, Miles; … - 2015

Election in 2009. We conducted a daily web survey for seven days before and after the election, obtaining1068 responses … significantly unhappier on the day following the election. However, happiness returned to the previous level in one or two days … that the happiness level of those whose expectation of the election results were realized did not change, while that of …

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Koizumi carried the day: Did the Japanese election results make people happy and unhappy?

Tsutsui, Yoshiro; Kimball, Miles; Ohtake, Fumio - 2007

This paper investigates whether Japanese people were happy and unhappy with the general election conducted on September … election to ask people how happy they were and which party they had supported. Although there are consistent tendencies that … presidential election, this study suggests that Japanese people are indifferent to politics. …

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Effects of Fiscal Rules - 85 Years' Experience in Switzerland

Burret, Heiko T.; Feld, Lars P. - 2016

The paper investigates the fiscal effects of Swiss cantonal debt brakes by taking explicitly into account the rules' coverage. An in-depth analysis provides unique evidence that suggests the following: First, fiscal rules at the cantonal level have a negative effect on public deficits, which is...

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You are in charge: Experimentally testing the motivating power of holding a judicial office

Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2016

Apparently judges' decisions are not motivated by maximizing their own profit. The literature uses two strategies to explain this observation: judges care about the long-term monetary consequences for themselves, or individuals who are more strongly motivated by the common good self-select into...

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Impact of internal migration on political participation in turkey

Akarca, Ali T.; Tansel, Aysit - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-14

The Impact of population mobility on provincial turnout rates in the 2011 Turkish parliamentary election is studied …

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Trump's first triumph: The US republican primaries 2016 - An analysis of socio-demographic, time-related and regional influences

Stoetzer, Matthias-Wolfgang; Gerlich, Steffen; … - 2017

On the night of November 8th 2016 Donald Trump won the US presidential election with 306 electoral votes (vs. 232 for … Hilary Clinton). Most notably, all of the numerous election forecasts failed to predict Trump's victory. It was preceded by …

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