interested in: Does the partisan identity of the mayor influence the voter's decision in the subsequent town council election … the mayor on the result of the last council election? We rely on a regression discontinuity design focusing on close … election outcomes based on municipal level data for Germany. We find that the party of the mayor can receive a bonus of 4 …

We investigate empirically how party ideology influences size and scope of government as measured by the size of … differences in Democratic and Republican Party ideology. We distinguish between three types of divided government: overall divided … deregulating labor markets. We find that ideology-induced policies were counteracted under overall divided government and proposal …

We examine the predictive validity of survey-measured left-right political ideology by testing whether this measure is …, conditional on entitlement concerns, self-reported right-wing ideology significantly predicts preferences for efficiency. Reported … left-wing ideology does not have predictive value in explaining preferences for equality …

We test the theory of expressive voting in relation to political ideology in a laboratory experiment. After deriving …

We study a model where two parties, one from the left and one from the right, compete for position. The election is to … be held in the near future and the outcome is uncertain. Prior to the election, the members of both parties nominate … left winning the election increases the degree of convergence, while a more globalised economy (greater capital mobility …