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direct democracy 188 Demokratie 151 Democracy 132 Direct democracy 119 Referendum 89 Direkte Demokratie 69 Direct Democracy 65 Wahlverhalten 65 Voting behaviour 63 Ökonomische Theorie der Demokratie 54 Economic theory of democracy 52 Schweiz 46 Switzerland 38 Neue politische Ökonomie 33 Public choice 31 representative democracy 31 referendum 29 Initiatives 24 Voting 24 elections 24 Deutschland 22 Theorie 22 coalitions 22 voting 22 Theory 20 Wahl 18 Election 16 Germany 16 theory of voting 16 Abstimmungsregel 15 Referenda 15 Voting rule 15 Finanzpolitik 14 Fiscal policy 14 Initiative 14 Electoral system 13 Wahlsystem 13 Schätzung 12 constitutional design 12 Policy representation 11
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Free 233 Undetermined 107 CC license 1
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Book / Working Paper 292 Article 122 Other 1
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Working Paper 141 Graue Literatur 78 Non-commercial literature 78 Arbeitspapier 69 Article in journal 67 Aufsatz in Zeitschrift 67 Hochschulschrift 12 research-article 9 Konferenzschrift 7 Thesis 7 Article 6 Collection of articles of several authors 5 Sammelwerk 5 Aufsatz im Buch 3 Aufsatzsammlung 3 Book section 3 Conference proceedings 3 Dissertation u.a. Prüfungsschriften 3 Collection of articles written by one author 2 Conference paper 2 Konferenzbeitrag 2 Sammlung 2 Bibliografie enthalten 1 Bibliography included 1 Conference Paper 1 Statistik 1
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English 277 Undetermined 92 German 42 French 1 Polish 1 Romanian 1 Slovak 1
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Kirchgässner, Gebhard 36 Frey, Bruno S. 33 Feld, Lars P. 32 Stutzer, Alois 30 Asatryan, Zareh 18 Tanguiane, Andranick S. 14 Tangian, Andranik S. 11 Voigt, Stefan 11 Blume, Lorenz 10 Fischer, Justina A. V. 10 Galletta, Sergio 10 Meier, Armando N. 10 Hofer, Katharina E. 9 Potrafke, Niklas 9 Arnold, Felix 8 Bütler, Monika 8 Jametti, Mario 8 Schaltegger, Christoph A. 8 Baskaran, Thushyanthan 7 Fischer, Justina A.V. 7 Freier, Ronny 7 Heinemann, Friedrich 7 Kirchgassner, Gebhard 7 Maennig, Wolfgang 7 Torgler, Benno 7 Tridimas, George 7 Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M. 6 Maréchal, Michel André 6 Stadelmann, David 6 Baltensperger, Michael 5 Eichenberger, Reiner 5 Funk, Patricia 5 Koukal, Anna Maria 5 Kucher, Marcel 5 Matsusaka, John G. 5 Pallauf, Magdalena 5 Schnellenbach, Jan 5 Schultz, Christian 5 De Witte, Kristof 4 Feld, Lars 4
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CESifo 16 Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) 10 School of Economics and Political Science, Universität St. Gallen 9 Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät 8 C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers 7 Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 6 Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) 4 Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften 3 Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra 2 Deutsche Hochschule für Verwaltungswissenschaften Speyer 2 Economics Institute for Research (SIR), Handelshögskolan i Stockholm 2 Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Karlsruhe Institut für Technologie 2 Thurgauer Wirtschaftsinstitut an der Universität Konstanz 2 USI Università della Svizzera italiana 2 University of Bern, Department of Social Sciences 2 Alfred-Weber-Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften 1 Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) 1 Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science (CMS-EMS), Kellogg Graduate School of Management 1 DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) 1 Department of Economics, Florida International University 1 Department of Economics, Leicester University 1 Department of Economics, University of Connecticut 1 Department of Economics, York University 1 Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi Quantitativi (DEMM), Università degli Studi di Milano 1 Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique (DEEP), Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) 1 EconWPA 1 Economic Policy Research Unit (EPRU), Økonomisk Institut 1 Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata 1 Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Université de Fribourg - Universität Freiburg 1 Herbert Quandt-Stiftung 1 Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung <Zürich> 1 Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre <Ilmenau> 1 Institut für Wirtschaftspolitik, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät 1 Institute of Local Public Finance 1 International Centre for Economic Research (ICER) 1 Law, Economics and Institutions, Boalt School of Law 1 London School of Economics (LSE) 1 School of Economics and Finance, Business School 1 School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus 1 Schweizerische Städteverband 1
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CESifo working papers 20 CESifo Working Paper 18 CESifo Working Paper Series 16 CREMA Working Paper 14 European journal of political economy 12 Homo oeconomicus : HOE ; journal of behavioral and institutional economics 11 CREMA Working Paper Series 10 KIT Working Paper Series in Economics 9 ZEW Discussion Papers 9 California Journal of Politics and Policy 8 Working paper series in economics 8 CEPR Discussion Papers 7 IEW - Working Papers 7 Constitutional Political Economy 6 MPRA Paper 6 Constitutional political economy 5 Discussion paper / Universität St. Gallen, Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung ; School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economics 5 Public choice 5 ZEW discussion papers 5 Public Choice 4 SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance 4 Discussion paper series / IZA 3 Discussion papers / CEPR 3 Economics Working Paper Series / School of Economics and Political Science, Universität St. Gallen 3 Economics of Governance 3 European Union Politics 3 Group decision and negotiation 3 IZA Discussion Papers 3 International tax and public finance 3 Journal of Theoretical Politics 3 Argumente zu Marktwirtschaft und Politik 2 Bonn Econ Discussion Papers 2 CESifo working papers : the international platform of Ludwig-Maximilians University's Center for Economic Studies and the Ifo Institute 2 DIW Wochenbericht 2 EPRU Working Paper Series 2 Economics Working Papers / Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra 2 Essays in contemporary economics : a festschrift in memory of A. D. Karayiannis 2 Forschungsberichte / Ludwig Boltzmann Institut zur Analyse Wirtschaftspolitischer Aktivitäten 2 Jena Economic Research Papers 2 Journal of Happiness Studies 2
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ECONIS (ZBW) 181 RePEc 137 EconStor 79 Other ZBW resources 9 USB Cologne (business full texts) 3 BASE 3 USB Cologne (EcoSocSci) 3
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Game Changers: National Referendums and the Politicization of Europe
Hutter, Swen - In: Politics and Governance 13 (2025), pp. 1-20
How do national referendums shape political contestation? This article explores this question by examining the politicization of European integration, a key “cleavage issue” restructuring political conflict across Europe. While national referendums are often assumed to intensify public...
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Empowering the next generation : the role of direct democracy in youth enfranchisement
Koukal, Anna Maria; Schafer, Patricia; Eichenberger, Reiner - In: European journal of political economy 81 (2024), pp. 1-13
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Implementing direct democracy via representation
Correa-Lopera, Guadalupe - In: Mathematical social sciences 129 (2024), pp. 85-92
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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 sustainability of 25 Swiss cantons. Using data of all cantonal popular votes since 1977, our results show that the fiscal reaction of cantonal governments to an increase in the debt to GDP...
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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 sustainability of 25 Swiss cantons. Using data of all cantonal popular votes since 1977, our results show that the fiscal reaction of cantonal governments to an increase in the debt to GDP...
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Analysis of the 2021 Bundestag elections. 1/4. Representativeness of the parties and the Bundestag
Tanguiane, Andranick S. - 2022
This is the first out of four papers devoted to the 2021 German federal elections continuing our analysis of the 2009, 2013 and 2017 Bundestag elections by the methods of the mathematical theory of democracy. This one estimates the policy representation ability of the 39 parties that...
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Representativeness of the parties and the Bundestag
Tanguiane, Andranick S. - 2022
This is the first out of four papers devoted to the 2021 German federal elections continuing our analysis of the 2009, 2013 and 2017 Bundestag elections by the methods of the mathematical theory of democracy. This one estimates the policy representation ability of the 39 parties that...
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Identität, Populismus und direkte Demokratie. Zum Einfluss der nationalen Identität auf das Verhältnis von rechtspopulistischen Einstellungen und der Präferenz für direktdemokratische Entscheidungsverfahren
Reinhardt, Peter - In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift 64 (2022) 2, pp. 293-323
Unter dem Eindruck steigender Unzufriedenheit mit dem politischen System und Misstrauen in gewählte RepräsentantInnen steht die Forderung nach direktdemokratischen Beteiligungsformen gegenwärtig besonders in Verbindung mit dem Rechtspopulismus. Doch bleiben die genaue Beziehung zwischen...
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Why do some labour alliances succeed in politicizing Europe across borders? : a comparison of the Right2Water and Fair Transport European citizens' initiatives
Szabó, Imre; Golden, Darragh; Erne, Roland - In: Journal of common market studies : JCMS 60 (2022) 3, pp. 634-652
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Volkswille – Ideal oder Illusion? : Weshalb Volksentscheide undemokratisch werden können
Adam, Rudolf G. - 2024
Wenn das Volk entscheidet - wer ist dann das Volk? -- Volksentscheide zwischen demokratischem Anspruch und totalitärer Gefährdung -- Schlussfolgerungen -- Referenden als Vertrauensbeweis für die jeweilige Regierung.
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The Consequences of Hosting Asylum Seekers for Citizens' Policy Preferences
Zimmermann, Severin; Stutzer, Alois - 2021
Asylum migration is a major societal challenge in the Western world affecting residents' policy preferences. We analyze the effects of newly hosting asylum seekers in a given municipality on local citizens' preferences in terms of migratory and redistributive policies as well as of support or...
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Taxation under Direct Democracy
Geschwind, Stephan; Roesel, Felix - 2021
Do citizens legislate different tax policies than parliaments? We provide quasi-experimental evidence for causal effects of direct democracy. Town meetings (popular assemblies) replace local councils in small German municipalities below a specific population threshold. Difference-in-differences,...
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Money decentralization under direct democracy procedures: The case of classical Athens
Economou, Emmanouil Marios L.; Kyriazis, Nicholas C.; … - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 14 (2021) 1, pp. 1-17
By analyzing the case of Athens during the Classical period (508-323 BCE) the main thesis of this paper is that under direct democracy procedures and the related institutional setup, a monetary system without a Central Bank may function relatively well. We focus on the following issues: (i) The...
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Taxation under direct democracy
Geschwind, Stephan; Rösel, Felix - 2021
Do citizens legislate different tax policies than parliaments? We provide quasi-experimental evidence for causal effects of direct democracy. Town meetings (popular assemblies) replace local councils in small German municipalities below a specific population threshold. Difference-in-differences,...
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Money decentralization under direct democracy procedures : the case of classical Athens
Economou, Emmanouil Marios L.; Kyriazēs, Nikos K.; … - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 1/30, pp. 1-17
By analyzing the case of Athens during the Classical period (508-323 BCE) the main thesis of this paper is that under direct democracy procedures and the related institutional setup, a monetary system without a Central Bank may function relatively well. We focus on the following issues: (i) Τhe...
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Direct democracy, corporate political strategy, and firm value
Fahlenbrach, Rüdiger; Ovtchinnikov, Alexei; Valta, Philip - 2021 - This version: March 2021
We analyze a novel data set of corporate contributions to ballot initiatives and referendums at the U.S. state level. Firms make significant contributions to ballot measures in favor of or against specific initiatives. Firms that contribute to successful (failed) direct initiated state...
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The consequences of hosting asylum seekers for citizens' policy preferences
Zimmermann, Severin; Stutzer, Alois - 2021
Asylum migration is a major societal challenge in the Western world affecting residents' policy preferences. We analyze the effects of newly hosting asylum seekers in a given municipality on local citizens' preferences in terms of migratory and redistributive policies as well as of support or...
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Is direct democracy good or bad for corporations and unions?
Matsusaka, John G. - In: The journal of law & economics 66 (2023) 1, pp. 83-110
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Ist die Forderung nach direkter Demokratie populistisch?
Hesse, Nils - In: Ordo : Jahrbuch für die Ordnung von Wirtschaft und … 72/73 (2023) 1, pp. 470-488
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A method for identifying parameterizations of the Compensation election and Quadratic voting that admit pure-strategy equilibria
Vragov, Roumen; Smith, Vernon L. - In: Mathematical social sciences 122 (2023), pp. 7-16
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Populism and Accountability : Interdisciplinary Researches on Active Citizenship
Baggio, Antonio Maria (ed.); Baldarelli, Maria Gabriella (ed.) - 2023
Populism and Accountability: Interdisciplinary researches - An Introduction -- Part 1: Populism and Accountability: Introductory Studies -- Populism and its Definitions. Interpretations and Perspectives of a Multifaceted Political Model -- Accountability and Stakeholder engagement: politics and...
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Introduction: Perspectives on Democracy
Müller-Rommel, Ferdinand; Geißel, Brigitte - In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift 61 (2020) 2, pp. 225-235
This article explores diverse views on both the current challenges and limits as well as the reforms and innovations of existing democracies at the beginning of the twenty-first century. First, it argues that socioeconomic inequality, new populism, new forms of communication, and globalization...
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The trade-off between deepening and broadening of democracy: Lessons from youth enfranchisement
Koukal, Anna Maria; Schafer, Patricia; Eichenberger, Reiner - 2020
Broadening democracy by lowering the voting age is on the political agenda in many democratic societies. Previous suffrage extensions suggest that there are systematic differences between what parliaments decide and what voters want with respect to enfranchisement of new groups. This paper...
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The trade-off between deepening and broadening of democracy : lessons from youth enfranchisement
Koukal, Anna Maria; Schafer, Patricia; Eichenberger, Reiner - 2020
Broadening democracy by lowering the voting age is on the political agenda in many democratic societies. Previous suffrage extensions suggest that there are systematic differences between what parliaments decide and what voters want with respect to enfranchisement of new groups. This paper...
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Political Budget Cycles: Evidence from Swiss Cantons
Baldi, Guido; Forster, Stephan - 2019
Models of political budget cycles assume that politicians use fiscal policy to increase their chances of re-election. However, empirical results for advanced economies provide ambiguous support for the existence of such electoral cycles. Also, studies focusing on the regional or local level of...
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Combining the third vote with traditional elections
Tanguiane, Andranick S. - 2019
The German two-vote election system implements two historical conceptions of political representation coined at the end of the 18th century during the American and French Revolutions. The descriptive conception - the parliament portrays the society in miniature - is implemented in the first vote...
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Overstrained Citizens? The Number of Ballot Propositions and the Quality of the Decision Process in Direct Democracy
Stutzer, Alois; Baltensperger, Michael; Meier, Armando N. - 2019
We study how the number of ballot propositions affects the quality of decision making in direct democracy, as reflected in citizens' knowledge, voting behavior, and attitudes toward democracy. Using three comprehensive data sets from Switzerland with over 3,500 propositions, we exploit variation...
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Rain, emotions and voting for the status quo
Meier, Armando N.; Schmid, Lukas; Stutzer, Alois - 2019
Do emotions affect the decision between change and the status quo? We exploit exogenous variation in emotions caused by rain and analyze data on more than 870,000 municipal vote outcomes in Switzerland to address this question. The empirical tests are based on administrative ballot outcomes and...
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Combining the third vote with traditional elections
Tanguiane, Andranick S. - 2019
The German two-vote election system implements two historical conceptions of political representation coined at the end of the 18th century during the American and French Revolutions. The descriptive conception - the parliament portrays the society in miniature - is implemented in the first vote...
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Rain, emotions and voting for the status quo
Meier, Armando N.; Schmid, Lukas; Stutzer, Alois - 2019
Do emotions affect the decision between change and the status quo? We exploit exogenous variation in emotions caused by rain and analyze data on more than 870,000 municipal vote outcomes in Switzerland to address this question. The empirical tests are based on administrative ballot outcomes and...
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Overstrained citizens? : the number of ballot propositions and the quality of the decision process in direct democracy
Stutzer, Alois; Baltensperger, Michael; Meier, Armando N. - 2019
We study how the number of ballot propositions affects the quality of decision making in direct democracy, as reflected in citizens' knowledge, voting behavior, and attitudes toward democracy. Using three comprehensive data sets from Switzerland with over 3,500 propositions, we exploit variation...
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The generation gap in direct democracy : age vs. cohort effects
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Maennig, Wolfgang; Mueller, Steffen Q. - In: European journal of political economy 72 (2022), pp. 1-15
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The consequences of hosting asylum seekers for citizens’ policy preferences
Zimmermann, Severin; Stutzer, Alois - In: European journal of political economy 73 (2022), pp. 1-16
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Republic or democracy? : co-voting!
Gersbach, Hans; Mamageishvili, Akaki; Tejada, Oriol - 2022
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Taxation under direct democracy
Geschwind, Stephan; Rösel, Felix - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 200 (2022), pp. 536-554
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Decision-making institutions and voters' preferences for fiscal policies
Galletta, Sergio - 2018
This paper examines the effect of local political decision-making institutions (i.e., direct democracy vs. representative democracy) on citizens' preferences toward public spending. Exogenous variation in institutions comes from a regression discontinuity design, which exploits a discrete change...
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Overstrained citizens? The number of ballot propositions and the quality of the decision process in direct democracy
Stutzer, Alois; Baltensperger, Michael; Meier, Armando N. - 2018
We study how the number of ballot propositions affects the quality of decision making in direct democracy, as reflected in citizens' knowledge, voting behavior, and attitudes toward democracy. Using three comprehensive data sets from Switzerland with over 3,500 propositions, we exploit variation...
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Testing the improved third vote during the 2018 election of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology student parliament
Tangian, Andranik S. - 2018
Under the "Third Vote" method, the voters cast no votes but are asked about their preferences on policy issues as declared in the party manifestos (like in voting advice applications, e.g. German Wahl-O-Mat). Then the policy profile of the electorate with the balance of public opinion on every...
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Complex Ballot Propositions, Individual Voting Behavior, and Status quo Bias
Hessami, Zohal; Resnjanskij, Sven - 2018
One concern about direct democracy is that citizens may not be sufficiently competent to decide about complex policies. This may lead to exaggerated conservatism in the voting decision (status quo bias). To investigate how complexity affects individual voting behavior, we develop a novel measure...
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Overstrained citizens? : the number of ballot propositions and the quality of the decision process in direct democracy
Stutzer, Alois; Baltensperger, Michael; Meier, Armando N. - 2018
We study how the number of ballot propositions affects the quality of decision making in direct democracy, as reflected in citizens' knowledge, voting behavior, and attitudes toward democracy. Using three comprehensive data sets from Switzerland with over 3,500 propositions, we exploit variation...
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Why delegate? : comparing direct and representative democracy
Correa-Lopera, Guadalupe - 2018
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The generation gap in direct democracy
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Maennig, Wolfgang; Mueller, Steffen Q. - 2018
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Decision-making institutions and voters' preferences for fiscal policies
Galletta, Sergio - 2018
This paper examines the effect of local political decision-making institutions (i.e., direct democracy vs. representative democracy) on citizens' preferences toward public spending. Exogenous variation in institutions comes from a regression discontinuity design, which exploits a discrete change...
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Testing the improved third vote during the 2018 election of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology student parliament
Tanguiane, Andranick S. - 2018
Under the "Third Vote" method, the voters cast no votes but are asked about their preferences on policy issues as declared in the party manifestos (like in voting advice applications, e.g. German Wahl-O-Mat). Then the policy profile of the electorate with the balance of public opinion on every...
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Special interest influence under direct versus representative democracy
Matsusaka, John G. - 2018
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Complex ballot propositions, individual voting behavior, and status quo bias
Hessami, Zohal; Resnjanskij, Sven - 2018
One concern about direct democracy is that citizens may not be sufficiently competent to decide about complex policies. This may lead to exaggerated conservatism in the voting decision (status quo bias). To investigate how complexity affects individual voting behavior, we develop a novel measure...
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Democracy or what? : political system on the planet Mars after its colonization
Wójtowicz, Tomasz; Szocik, Konrad - In: Technological forecasting & social change : an … 166 (2021), pp. 1-6
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The initiative, referendum, and distribution of income : an empirical analysis of Swiss cantons
Frey, Christian; Schaltegger, Christoph A. - In: European journal of political economy 66 (2021), pp. 1-31
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Form of government and voters' preferences for public spending
Galletta, Sergio - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 186 (2021), pp. 548-561
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Enfranchising non-citizens : what drives natives' willingness to share power?
Koukal, Anna Maria; Schafer, Patricia; Eichenberger, Reiner - In: Journal of comparative economics : the journal of the … 49 (2021) 4, pp. 1088-1108
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