Search Results - subject:"Referendum"

A political-economic analysis of Swiss referendums 1848 to 2022 : turnout, acceptance rates and the double-majority threshold

Hosli, Madeleine; Martins Santos, Luiza; Boeree, Henry - In: Constitutional political economy 36 (2025) 2, pp. 245-270

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On pendular voting

Gersbach, Hans - 2025

"Pendular Voting" presents a novel two-stage voting procedure: A randomly chosen citizen group votes on a proposal replacing the status quo. Depending on the outcome, a "counterproposal" ensues, that is closer to/further away from the status quo than the original proposal. All citizens vote...

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Historical self-governance and norms of cooperation

Rustagi, Devesh - In: Econometrica : journal of the Econometric Society, an … 92 (2024) 5, pp. 1473-1502

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A better cycle-breaker for Swiss democracy?

Gersbach, Hans; Cadado Noguerales, Rodrigo; Schenk, Samuel - 2024

When a counter-proposal is made to an initiative to change the Swiss constitution, the citizenry makes three binary majority choices: the initiative versus the status quo, the initiative versus the counter-proposal, and the status quo versus the counterproposal as a tie-breaker. If there is a...

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The effects of direct democracy on stock market risk and returns : an event study from Switzerland

Morley, Bruce - In: Risks : open access journal 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-13

both the market's return and volatility. The results suggest that the day after the referendum, there was little evidence … of a positive effect on stock returns. However, using a longer window of three days before and after the referendum …, there was evidence of a positive effect from the referendum on the market's returns and a negative effect on its volatility …

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Historical self-governance and norms of cooperation

Rustagi, Devesh - 2024

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Historical self-governance and norms of cooperation

Rustagi, Devesh - 2024

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015049061

The evolutionary political economy of dichotomized societies

Almudi, Isabel; Fatas-Villafranca, Francisco; Vazquez, … - In: Journal of evolutionary economics 35 (2025) 2, pp. 173-206

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What mattered most in the Brexit vote? : evidence from detailed regression and decomposition analysis

Drinkwater, Stephen J.; Blackaby, David; Robinson, Catherine - 2024

The UK's decision to leave the EU continues to have major economic, political and social implications. It is therefore unsurprising that the reasons behind Brexit have been widely discussed. However, whilst existing empirical evidence has tended to focus on specific factors, we undertake a...

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COVID-19 as a driver for e-participation : insights from participatory budgeting in Poland

Roztocki, Narcyz; Strzelczyk, Wojciech; Weistroffer, … - In: Central European Management Journal 33 (2025) 1, pp. 126-143

Purpose - This paper explores how COVID-19 has impacted the shift from public participation by conventional means to e-participation. Specifically, we investigated to what extent COVID-19 has been a driver for electronic participation in community participatory budgeting, which is a kind of...

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