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The indirect effects of direct democracy : local government size and non-budgetary voter initiatives

Asatryan, Zareh - 2014

excluded from the voters' right of the initiative? I study this question by extending the analysis to German direct democracy … 2009, I show that in this sample and in contrast to the Swiss and US evidence direct democracy causes an expansion of local … towards exploiting their direct democracy rights and their preferences for local public policies. To address this issue I use …

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Campaigning in direct democracies : initiative petition signing, voter turnout, and acceptance

Hofer, Katharina E. - 2013

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The indirect effects of direct democracy : local government size and non-budgetary voter initiatives in Germany

Asatryan, Zareh - In: International tax and public finance 23 (2016) 3, pp. 580-601

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Partisan campaigning and initiative petition signing in direct democracies

Hofer, Katharina E. - In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics 153 (2017) 3, pp. 261-291

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Disciplining ballots? : (un-intended) effects of voter engagement on the fiscal sustainability of Swiss cantons

Bury, Yannick; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2023

We test whether the proactive use of instruments of direct democracy by voters can help to explain fiscal …

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Die direkte Demokratie : modern, erfolgreich, entwicklungs- und exportfähig

Kirchgässner, Gebhard; Feld, Lars P.; Savioz, Marcel - 1999

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Voter preferences, electoral promises, and the composition of public spending

Keefer, Philip; Scartascini, Carlos G.; Vlaicu, Razvan - 2020

This paper proposes and empirically tests a new demand-side explanation for distortions in public spending composition. Voters prefer spending with certain and immediate benefits when they have low trust in electoral promises and high discount rates. The paper incorporates these characteristics...

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The political economy of immigration in a direct democracy : the case of Switzerland

Krishnakumar, Jayalakshmi - In: European economic review : EER 56 (2012) 2, pp. 174-189

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Was treibt die Stimmbürger an die Urne? : eine empirische Untersuchung der Abstimmungsbeteiligung in der Schweiz ; 1981 - 1999

Kirchgässner, Gebhard; Schulz, Tobias - 2004

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Supermajority voting requirements for new expenditures : evidence from Switzerland

Mäder, Beatrice - In: Essays in public economics, (pp. 1-51). 2018

The first chapter investigates the effect of parliamentary supermajority voting requirements for the adoption of new expenditures on government spending. I analyse the introduction of supermajority voting rules in three Swiss cantons in the 1990s. I consider total current expenditures as well as...

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