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Benesch, Christine - 2016

We use a change in the voting procedures of one of the two chambers of the Swiss parliament to explore how transparency affects the voting behavior of its members. Until 2013, the Council of States (Ständerat) had voted by a show of hands. While publicly observable at the time of the vote,...

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Electoral Control when Policies are for Sale

Farvaque, Étienne; Lagadec, Gael - 2021

This article analyses the dynamics of electoral promises, building on an electoral competition model with endogenous policies. It extends the Grossman-Helpman (1994) model (Grossman G., Helpman E. (1994), "Protection for sale", American Economic Review, 84, 4, 833-850) to include sanctions from...

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Can Television Reduce Xenophobia? The Case of East Germany

Hornuf, Lars; Rieger, Marc Oliver; Hartmann, Sven Alfred - 2022

Can television have a mitigating effect on xenophobia? To explore this question, we investigate a natural experiment in … which individuals in some regions of East Germany could not—due to their geographic location—consume West German television … individuals who received West German television during the GDR period and were thus more frequently exposed to foreign media have …

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Internet and Voting in the Web 2.0 Era : Evidence from a Local Broadband Policy

Poy, Samuele - 2016

This article analyzes the impact of a local broadband expansion policy on electoral turnout and party vote share. We exploit a unique policy intervention involving staged broadband infrastructure installation across rural municipalities in the Province of Trento (Italy), thus generating a source...

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Voting When the Stakes are High

Andersen, Jørgen Juel - 2010

positive effect of election stakes on turnout …

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Elections and Market Provision of Information

Bruns, Christian - 2013

Economists usually think that rational voters have little incentives to acquire costly information. We present a theoretical model to show that, in contrast to this widely held belief, rational voters acquire considerable amounts of information if media technology is available because then they...

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Elections and De Facto Expenditure Decentralization in Canada

Jametti, Mario - 2014

This paper empirically investigates the underlying determinants of expenditure decentralization, based on the predictions of a new political economy model of partial decentralization. The analysis is based on an agency model, in which two levels of government are involved in the provision of a...

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Information Markets, Elections and Contracts

Gersbach, Hans - 2011

Politicians may pander to public opinion and may renounce undertaking beneficial long-term projects. To alleviate this problem, we introduce a triple mechanism involving political information markets, reelection threshold contracts, and democratic elections. An information market is used to...

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Policy Uncertainty and Manufacturing Investment : Evidence from U.S. State Elections

Shelton, Cameron A. - 2016

year of a gubernatorial election, the elasticity of investment to the eventual margin of victory is 0.027. Both the …

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Electoral Externalities in Federations - Evidence from German Opinion Polls

Frei, Xenia - 2017

the endogenous variables; the federal election trend is treated as predetermined. Our results suggest that shocks in …

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