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Gehring, Kai; Adema, Joop; Poutvaara, Panu - 2022

Immigration is one of the most divisive political issues in many countries today. Competing narratives, circulated via the media, are crucial in shaping how immigrants' role in society is perceived. We propose a new method combining advanced natural language processing tools with dictionaries to...

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Terrorism and Voting: The Rise of Right-Wing Populism in Germany

Sabet, Navid; Liebald, Marius; Friebel, Guido - 2023

Can right-wing terrorism increase support for far-right populist parties, and if so, why? Exploiting quasi-random variation between successful and failed attacks across German municipalities, we find that successful attacks lead to significant increases in the vote share for the right-wing,...

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Private, Social and Self-Insurance for Long-Term Care in the Presence of Family Help - A Political Economy Analysis

De Donder, Philippe; Pestieau, Pierre - 2013

We study the political determination of the level of social long-term care insurance when voters also choose private insurance and saving amounts. Agents differ in income, probability of becoming dependent and of receiving family help. Social insurance redistributes across income and risk...

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From Couch to Poll: Media Content and the Value of Local Information

Bühler, Mathias; Dickens, Andrew; Dickens, Andrew C. - 2024

We document the importance of local information in mass media for the political engagement of citizens and accountability of politicians. We study this in the context of Canada, where until 1958, competition in television markets was suppressed—Canadians received either public or private...

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Biased Forecasts and Voting: The Brexit Referendum Case

Bizzotto, Jacopo; Cipullo, Davide; Reslow, André - 2024

This paper explores whether professional macroeconomic forecasters manipulate their forecasts to influence voting …

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Cognitive Abilities and the Demand for Bad Policy

Nunnari, Salvatore; Proto, Eugenio; Rustichini, Aldo - 2024

Rational choice theories assume that voters accurately assess the outcomes of policies. However, many important policies—such as regulating prices and introducing Pigouvian taxation—yield outcomes through indirect or equilibrium effects that may differ from their direct effects. Citizens may...

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How should large and small countries be represented in a currency union?

Berger, Helge; Mueller, Till - 2004

apparent mismatch between relative economic size and voting rights in the Council. We present a simple model of optimal … representation in a federal central bank addressing this question. Optimal voting weights reflect two opposing forces: the wish to … passive reaction to idiosyncratic national economic shocks. A perfect match between economic size and voting rights is rarely …

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The political economy of corruption and the role of financial institutions

Boerner, Kira; Hainz, Christa - 2004

positions. In a probabilistic voting model, we show that a lack of financial institutions can lead to more corruption as more …

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Migration and the welfare state : the economic power of the non-voter?

Boerner, Kira; Uebelmesser, Silke - 2005

This paper investigates the impact of emigration on the political choice regarding the size of the welfare state. Mobility has two countervailing effects: the political participation effect and the tax base effect. With emigration, the composition of the constituency changes. This increases the...

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The evolution of public spending on higher education in a democracy

Haupt, Alexander - 2005

This paper analyses political forces that cause an initial expansion of public spending on higher education and an ensuing decline in subsidies. Growing public expenditures increase the future size of the higher income class and thus boost future demand for education. This demand shift implies...

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