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Voters elect politicians who closely matched their preferences
Portmann, Marco; Stadelmann, David; Eichenberger, Reiner - 2012
What determines political candidates' election prospects' We match roll call votes of candidates for the majority elected upper house of parliament who were previously in the lower house with revealed preferences of their constituency. Thereby, we obtain a direct measure of past congruence....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168398
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Quantifying Parliamentary Representation of Constituents' Preferences with Quasi-Experimental Data
Stadelmann, David; Portmann, Marco; Eichenberger, Reiner - 2011
issues from 1996 to 2008. The setting allows us to quantify the quality of parliamentary representation and we identify …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168370
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Evaluating the Median Voter Model's Explanatory Power
Stadelmann, David; Portmann, Marco; Eichenberger, Reiner - 2011
We match individual senators' voting behavior on legislative proposals with 24 real referenda decisions on exactly the same issues with identical wording. This setting allows us to evaluate the median voter model's quality with revealed constituents' preferences. Results indicate a limited...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168383
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Preference Representation and the Influence of Political Parties in Majoritarian vs. Proportional Systems: An Almost Ideal Empirical Test
Stadelmann, David; Portmann, Marco; Eichenberger, Reiner - 2012
Electoral systems determine the role party affiliations play in political representation. According to conventional … expectations, politicians' party affiliations should influence political representation when they are elected by proportional … representation. In contrast, majoritarian systems force politicians to converge to the median position of their constituents, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168391
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Testing the Median Voter Model and Moving Beyond its Limits: Do Characteristics of Politicians Matter?
Portmann, Marco; Stadelmann, David - 2013
We exploit a natural measure of congruence between politicians and their constituency' bnm bnnb fgvhjuis preferences to directly quantify the extent of legislative shirking and evaluate the mechanism of the median voter model. The median voter model explains the behavior of politicians with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168414
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Preference Representation and the Influence of Political Parties in Majoritarian vs. Proportional Systems: An Almost Ideal Empirical Test
Stadelmann, David; Portmann, Marco; Eichenberger, Reiner - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2012
Electoral systems determine the role party affiliations play in political representation. According to conventional … expectations, politicians’ party affiliations should influence political representation when they are elected by proportional … representation. In contrast, majoritarian systems force politicians to converge to the median position of their constituents, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646021
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Testing the Median Voter Model and Moving Beyond its Limits: Do Characteristics of Politicians Matter?
Portmann, Marco; Stadelmann, David - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2013
We exploit a natural measure of congruence between politicians and their constituency' bnm bnnb fgvhjuis preferences to directly quantify the extent of legislative shirking and evaluate the mechanism of the median voter model. The median voter model explains the behavior of politicians with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010690314
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Voting for mobile citizens
Wrede, Matthias - 2008
This paper analyzes inter- and intraregional redistribution in a centralized state using the citizen-candidate model. It focuses on conflicting interests among regions and among citizens of varying mobility. If discrimination with respect to place of residence and degree of mobility is possible,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003865840
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The political economy of regionalism
Goyal, Sanjeev; Staal, Klaas - 2000
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303324
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Incentives for separation and incentives for public good provision
Staal, Klaas - 2006
In this paper I examine the incentives of regions to unite, to separate and to provide public goods. Separation allows for greater influence over the nature of political decision making while unification allows regions to exploit economies of scale in the provision of public goods. When public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010365871