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administrative data on expressway construction by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey, and use province …-by-year variation in expressway construction to show that vote shares for the AKP increased in response to the expressways. For the … undertaken by the AKP. Examining mechanisms, we do not find evidence that increased economic growth due to the express-ways drove …
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Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are they the optimal response to geography and comparative advantage, or the result of suboptimal political distortions? We investigate the political determinants of road paving in...
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Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are they the optimal response to geography and comparative advantage, or the result of suboptimal political distortions? We investigate the political determinants of road paving in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011960429
administrative data on expressway construction by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey, and use province …-by-year variation in expressway construction to show that vote shares for the AKP increased in response to the expressways. For the … undertaken by the AKP. Examining mechanisms, we do not find evidence that increased economic growth due to the express-ways drove …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315186
We analyze the impact of immigration on voting. Using Italian municipality data and IV estimation strategy, we find …
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therefore have a systematic influence on election results. Using administrative migration and voting data, we show that counties … find no effects on incumbent parties. In addition, our results show increased voting for parties with pro …-wing parties. The results have important policy implications for voting regulations. …
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Alongside a range of already well documented factors such as deindustrialization, technological progress and international trade, a series of recent empirical econometric studies show that immigration has contributed to the rise of extreme right-wing parties in Europe. Our study highlights,...
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several other Western countries. We estimate the impact of immigration on voting for far-left and far-right parties in France … no robust effect on far-left voting. The increased support for far-right candidates is driven by low educated immigrants …
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immigration on voting for the far-right Finns Party on a local level. Exploiting a convenient setup for a shift-share instrument …
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Value issues such as climate policy, immigration, or identity politics are among the most polarizing policy issues in the U.S. and other high-income countries. That polarization has been rising over the last decades. I investigate a novel channel of income inequality and political campaign...
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