In this paper, I analyze the voting outcomes of two very similar Swiss referendum ballots concerning the federal … governmentś competency to levy income, capital and turnover taxes to find out how the enfranchisement of women influences public … support for government spending. The first ballot took place shortly before the extension of suffrage to women in February …

The role of women in Western societies changed dramatically in the 20th century. We study how political empowerment … affected women's emancipation as reflected in their life choices like marital decisions and labor market participation. The … staggered introduction of female suffrage in Swiss states allows us to exploit the variation in the age women experienced …

We test whether the proactive use of instruments of direct democracy by voters can help to explain fiscal …

discipline their representatives through referenda that countered the results of voting by political representatives. …

-based - voting restrictions. This paper constructs and analyzes a novel dataset that codes the presence of race-based restrictions on … voting in 131 jurisdictions over 1730-2000 (consisting primarily of English-speaking subnational jurisdictions with … existence and abolition of property qualifications for voting. They are consistent with a framework in which an imperial …

"Pendular Voting" presents a novel two-stage voting procedure: A randomly chosen citizen group votes on a proposal … (majority voting), the counterproposal being the default outcome in case of cyclical collective preferences. We analyze the … in the first stage, without impacting the final outcome. Pendular Voting can engineer outcomes closer to the median voter …

This paper investigates how direct election regimes (à la presidential democracy) affect the selection of women into …

choices using the example of child care - a public good arguably valued by women. We hand-collect micro-data for 224 …

Does electing female politicians increase women’s political representation? Using a difference-in-differences design on … the share of women in government. To address selection concerns, we apply the synthetic control method to a unique case of …. Our findings provide causal evidence that her entry led to a lasting rise in women’s political representation …

Women are severely underrepresented in American politics, especially among Republicans. This underrepresentation may … result from women being less willing to run for office, from voter bias against women, or from political structures that make … it more difficult for women to compete. Here we show how support for female candidates varies by voters’ party …