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This paper provides empirical evidence on how budget referendums affect school inputs by taking advantage of an exogenous enactment of budget referendums for small city school districts (SCSDs) in New York State in 1998. The paper shows that SCSDs reduce instructional spending and increase...
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the introduction of the initiative, referendum and recall in America broadly supports the theory, which also explains two …
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out-of-sample case of an in-sample observation, the 2017 independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan. We show that …
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require that withdrawal from EU membership must be approved by the voters of the withdrawing member state in a referendum. …
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study of the Stuttgart 21 referendum on one of the largest infrastructure projects in Germany. The evidence suggests that …
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We examine the incentives of regions in a country to unite or toseparate. We find that smaller regions have greater incentives tounite, relative to larger regions. We show, however, that on thewhole, majority voting on separation and union generates excessiveincentives to separate. This leads us...
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not if only occasional single questions are brought to a referendum. Then, the relation between direct democracy and the …
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