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Direct Democracy, Voter Preferences and Government Spending

Funk, Patricia; Gathmann, Christina - 2013

conservative, less in favor of redistribution and less supportive of public spending tend to have stronger direct democracy. We … canton characteristics. We then revisit the relationship between direct democracy and public spending. Once we fully control … for voter preferences, the cross-sectional correlation between direct democracy and government spending declines by …

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Fair Direct Voting : Improving Direct Democracy Via a Two Stage Voting Process to Counter the Tyranny of the Majority, Populism and Extremism

Phelps, Robert - 2022

Democratic direct voting on issues (in the form of referenda) suffers from the tyranny of the majority as well as potentially supporting extremist and populist positions. We state 4 fair voting principles for issue based voting, and show that current direct voting systems are not consistent with...

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Income and policy choices : evidence from parliamentary decisions and referenda

Stadelmann, David; Portmann, Marco; Eichenberger, Reiner - In: Economics letters 135 (2015), pp. 117-120

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The power of religious organizations in human decision processes : analyzing voting behavior ; conference paper

Torgler, Benno; Stadelmann, David; Portmann, Marco - 2014

In Switzerland, two key church institutions the Conference of Swiss Bishops (CSB) and the Federation of Protestant Churches (FPC) make public recommendations on how to vote for certain referenda. We leverage this unique situation to directly measure religious organizations power to shape human...

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Pocketbook Voting, Social Preferences, and Expressive Motives in Referenda

Meya, Johannes - 2017

We develop and test a theory of voting and turnout decisions that integrates self-interest, social preferences, and … costs and benefits, our setting comprises a real-world laboratory of direct democracy. We find that monetary benefits …

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