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ages. This paper presents a representative survey experiment on education spending in Germany, which exhibits low relative … levels to spending on early and primary education. Effects of information provision persist over a two-week period in a …
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Results from a new experiment shed light on the effects of voter information on vote buying and incumbent advantage …. The treatment provided voters with information about a major spending program and the proposed allocations and promises of … mayoral candidates just prior to municipal elections. It left voters more knowledgeable about candidates' proposed policies …
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when they can channel voters' negative sentiments without having the responsibility of governing. …
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support for tuition depends on information and design, we devise several survey experiments in representative samples of the … German electorate (N>19,500). The electorate is divided, with a slight plurality opposing tuition. Providing information on … opposition-reducing effect persists two weeks after treatment. Information on fiscal costs and unequal access does not affect …
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support for tuition depends on information and design, we devise several survey experiments in representative samples of the … German electorate (N>19,500). The electorate is divided, with a slight plurality opposing tuition. Providing information on … opposition-reducing effect persists two weeks after treatment. Information on fiscal costs and unequal access does not affect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985922
support for tuition depends on information and design, we devise several survey experiments in representative samples of the … German electorate (N>19,500). The electorate is divided, with a slight plurality opposing tuition. Providing information on … opposition-reducing effect persists two weeks after treatment. Information on fiscal costs and unequal access does not affect …
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This paper examines the incentives for a party leader in office and for a parties' rank-and-file to replace a sitting member of parliament. As to the leader's decision, we show that the leader prefers to replace a critical member of parliament who votes against the leader's policy. A competent...
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We investigate the influence of anti-immigrant parties on foreigners' location choices in Italy. Considering municipal elections from 2000 to 2018, we create a database that includes a scientific-based classification on the anti-/pro-immigration axis of all Italian political parties based on...
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How important are political parties in motivating and disciplining elected officials? Using a difference-in-discontinuity design, we study how shocks to incumbents're-election probabilities affect legislative behavior in a setting where parties fully control candidate selection. We find that...
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German voters in the 2019 European election showed remarkable regional differences in their voting behavior. The Green …
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