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Voting against the separation of powers between legislature and administration

Stadelmann, David; Eichenberger, Reiner; Portmann, Marco - 2013

favor reducing the separation of powers between legislature and administration. …

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The Consequences of Corruption: Evidence from China

Dong, Bin; Torgler, Benno - 2010

environment ("grease the wheels" and "sand the wheels"). Corruption is observed to considerably increase income inequality in … substantially aggravates pollution probably through loosening environment regulation, and that it modifies the effects of trade …

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The Willingness to Pay for Preventing Environmental Damage

Torgler, Benno; García-Valiñas, María A. - 2005

Since the 70s, an increasing number of studies investigating environmental preferences have been made. However, papers related to a country and its regions or its development over time are still largely lacking, although it is a promising line to search empirically for factors that have been...

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Participation in Environmental Organizations: An Empirical Analysis

Torgler, Benno; García-Valiñas, María A. - 2006

The literature on volunteering has strongly increased in the last few years. However, there is still a lack of substantial empirical evidence about the determinants of environmental participation. This empirical study analyses a cross-section of individuals using micro-data of the World Values...

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Participation in Environmental Organizations: Political Interest and State Capacity

Torgler, Benno; García-Valiñas, María A. - 2006

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Direkte Demokratie

Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2010

The current debt crisis in many OECD countries calls for adequate strategies in budget consolidation. To regain fiscal solvency many governments base their fiscal adjustments at least partly on spending cuts. A common political claim is that spending cuts rely too much on investment thereby...

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Democracy, Property Rights, Income Equality, and Corruption

Dong, Bin; Torgler, Benno - 2010

This paper presents theoretical and empirical evidence on the nexus between corruption and democracy. We establish a … political economy model where the effect of democracy on corruption is conditional on income distribution and property rights … equality which shows that corruption is a nonlinear function of these variables. The results indicate that democracy will work …

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Sanfter Paternalismus, meritorische Güter, und der normative Individualismus

Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2012

Paternalism is an attempt to influence the decisions of individuals for their own benefit even if there are no third parties involved. This seems to be a contradiction to normative individualism which provides the general or ientation of our modern demo cracies. Soft or libertarian paternalism...

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Random Selection in Politics, Science and Society: Applications and Institutional Embeddedness

Frey, Bruno S.; Steiner, Lasse - 2014

applied fruitfully to a wide range of fields, including politics, the judiciary, the economy, science and the cultural sector …

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Das zukünftige Verhältnis von Kapitalismus und Demokratie aus ökonomischer Sicht

Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2015

Whether democracy or capitalism should have normative priority depends on the philosophi- cal point of view but also …

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