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Migrants' missing votes
Giesing, Yvonne; Schikora, Felicitas - 2020
Emigrants are less likely to participate in elections in their home country. They are also self-selected in terms of education, gender, age, and political preferences, changing the structure of the origin population. High emigration rates can therefore have a systematic influence on election...
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Conservative politicians and voting on same-sex marriage
Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - 2017
We examine whether conservative politicians are less likely to support same-sex marriage when they run for office in safe districts using new data based on a roll-call vote in the national German parliament. The results show that the margin of the majority for the incumbent in the previous...
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Commitment Voting : A Mechanism for Intensity of Preference Revelation and Long-Term Commitment in Blockchain Governance
Berg, Chris; Davidson, Sinclair; Potts, Jason - 2020
Commitment voting is a mechanism for signalling intensity of preferences and long-term commitment to governance decisions in proof of stake blockchains. In commitment voting, the voting weight of a vote in any given election is determined by 1) the amount of tokens under a voters control and 2)...
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Immigration and support for anti-immigrant parties in Europe
Jäger, Julian - 2023
share of foreigners, consistent with group contact theory. The negative association is driven by Europeans with …
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Immigrants as future voters
Hillman, Arye L.; Long, Ngo Van - 2021
Immigration policies in western democracies have often been contrary to the policies predicted by the mainstream theory … of international economics. In particular, political parties that, according to economic theory, should adopt policies …. We identify a political principal-agent problem based on ego-rents from political office. Our theory predicts voter …
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Has immigration contributed to the rise of rightwing extremist parties in Europe?
Edo, Anthony; Giesing, Yvonne - 2020
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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Immigration and electoral support for the far left and the far right
Edo, Anthony; Giesing, Yvonne; Öztunc, Jonathan; … - 2017
Immigration has become one of the most divisive political issues in the United States, the United Kingdom, France and several other Western countries. We estimate the impact of immigration on voting for far-left and far-right parties in France, using panel data on presidential elections from...
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Immigration and electoral support for the far-left and the far-right
Edo, Anthony; Giesing, Yvonne; Öztunc, Jonathan; … - 2018
Immigration has become one of the most divisive political issues in the United States, the United Kingdom, France and several other Western countries. We estimate the impact of immigration on voting for far-left and far-right candidates in France, using panel data on presidential elections from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011800646
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Voting on labour-market integration and education policy when citizens differ in mobility and ability
Haupt, Alexander; Übelmesser, Silke - 2009
We analyse how institutional and political decisions are intertwined. Citizens who differ in their mobility and ability vote first on labour market integration and afterwards on education policy. The institutional decision on integration influences the succeeding education policy. More...
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Voting with public information
Liu, Shuo - 2015
We study the effect of public information on collective decision-making in a committee with members of both common and conflicting interests. We show that the set of preferences that allow for the existence of an informative voting equilibrium can be heavily restricted by the presence of a...
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