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Politics from the Bench? Ideology and Strategic Voting in the U.S. Supreme Court

Clark, Tom - 2019

those that were not. When a justice's choice decides the outcome of a case, her ideology plays an even greater role in …

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Voting and Political Participation in the Aftermath of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic

Mansour, Hani - 2020

This is the first study to examine the effect of experiencing a widespread, deadly epidemic on voting behavior. Using data on elections to the U.S House of Representatives and leveraging cross-district variation in HIV/AIDS mortality during the period 1983-1987, we document the effects of the...

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Does Party Competition Affect Political Activism?

Hager, Anselm - 2020

field experiment with a European party during a national election. In a seemingly unrelated party survey, we randomly …

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Backlash in Attitudes after the Election of Extreme Political Parties

Carlsson, Magnus - 2018

from the right and one from the left, using panel data from 290 municipal election districts. To identify causal effects … incumbency advantage in the next election. Exploring possible mechanisms, we find evidence that when the anti-immigrant party … wins a marginal seat, they experience higher levels of politician turnover before the next election and receive negative …

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Vote Buying in the US Congress

Matter, Ulrich - 2019

We assess the influence of moneyed interests on legislative decisions. Our theory predicts that the vote outcome distribution and donation flows in a legislature feature a discontinuity at the approval threshold of bills if special interest groups are involved in vote buying. Testing the...

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Moral Universalism and the Structure of Ideology

Enke, Benjamin - 2019

. Based on a simple model, we propose that what partly explains the particular internal structure of political ideology is …

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Immigration, Political Ideologies and the Polarization of American Politics

Dreher, Axel; Langlotz, Sarah; Matzat, Johannes; Mayda, … - 2021

and the ideology of politicians campaigning for the House of Representatives in the 1992-2016 period. Implementing various … polarization measures based on ideology data derived from 16 million campaign finance contributors, our results show that migrant …

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Polarization in Parliamentary Speach

Fiva, Jon H.; Nedregård, Oda; Øien, Henning - 2021

We study political polarization in a parliamentary setting dominated by strong parties. In addition to examining polarization along the left-right dimension, we consider political divergence between legislators belonging to the same political bloc. Are politicians’ background characteristics...

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Identity, Beliefs, and Political Conflict

Gennaioli, Nicola - 2019

We present a theory of identity politics that builds on two ideas. First, voters identify with the social group whose interests are closest to theirs and that features the strongest policy conflict with outgroups. Second, identification causes voters to slant their beliefs of self and others...

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Economic Interests, Worldviews and Identities : Theory and Evidence on Ideational Politics

Ash, Elliott; Mukand, Sharun W.; Rodrik, Dani - 2022

We distinguish between ideational and interest-based appeals to voters on the supply side of politics, and integrate the Keynes-Hayek perspective on the importance of ideas with the Stigler-Becker approach emphasizing vested interests. In our model, political entrepreneurs discover identity and...

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