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Do Parties Punish MPs for Voting against the Party Line?
Kauder, Bjoern - 2017
We examine whether parties punish politicians who vote against the party line in roll-call votes. Using data of German members of parliament over the legislative period 2009-2013, we take into account that the effect of punishment differs along the list of candidates because a candidate is...
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Precommitted Government Spending and Partisan Politics
Bohn, Henning - 2011
This paper analyzes government commitments to ongoing spending programs that require future outlays. Spending commitments are important for understanding partisan politics because they constrain future governments. In a model with one government good, a “stubborn liberal” policy maker can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124681
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Elites or Masses? A Structural Model of Policy Divergence, Voter Sorting and Apparent Polarization in U.S. Presidential Elections, 1972-2008
Krasa, Stefan - 2012
One of the most widely discussed phenomena in American politics today is the perceived increasing partisan divide that splits the U.S. electorate. A central contested question is whether this diagnosis is actually true, and if so, what is the underlying cause. We develop a model that relates the...
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Incumbent Effects and Partisan Alignment in Local Elections : A Regression Discontinuity Analysis Using Italian Data
Bracco, Emanuele; Porcelli, Francesco; Redoano, Michela - 2021
This paper provides a simple model to explain effect of political alignment between different tiers of government on policy choices and election outcomes. We derive precise predictions that, as long as voters attribute most of the credit for providing public goods to the local government: (i)...
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The Influence of Special Interests and Party Activists on Electoral Competition
Martineau, Nicolas-Guillaume - 2021
This paper studies the effects on electoral competition of political parties relying on monetary donations and volunteer labor for their electioneering activities. It also examines whether a recorded decline in party activism increases special-interest influence on party policy platforms....
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World Heritage List : Does it Make Sense?
Frey, Bruno S. - 2010
The UNESCO World Heritage List contains the 900 most treasured Sites of humanity's culture and landscapes. The World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013142233
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Global Cartels, Leniency Programs and International Antitrust Cooperation
Choi, Jay Pil - 2010
programs and the benefits of international antitrust cooperation between agencies. When international antitrust prosecution is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144908
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World Heritage : Where are We? An Empirical Analysis
Frey, Bruno S.; Pamini, Paolo - 2021
An empirical overview of the UNESCO World Heritage List according to various characteristics is presented. The … officially stated intention of the World Heritage List is to protect global heritage. Our focus is on the imbalance of the … considered “balanced” from different points of view. It turns out that the World Heritage List is unbalanced with respect to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316269
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International Income Inequality : Measuring PPP Bias by Estimating Engel Curves for Food
Almås, Ingvild - 2010
estimate the purchasing power parity (PPP) bias in Penn World Table incomes and provide corrected incomes. The bias is … substantial and systematic: the poorer a country, the more its income tends to be overestimated. Consequently, international …
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Voting on Labour-Market Integration and Education Policy When Citizens Differ in Mobility and Ability
Haupt, Alexander - 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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