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Voting for direct democracy : evidence from a unique popular initiative in Bavaria

Arnold, Felix; Freier, Ronny; Pallauf, Magdalena; … - 2014

allows us to focus on revealed preferences for direct democracy and to identify factors which explain this preference …. Empirical results suggests support for direct democracy is rather related to dissatisfaction with representative democracy in … general than with an elected governing party. …

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A decision heuristic for party identification : new British and German data and a new understanding for a classic concept

Zuckerman, Alan S.; Brynin, Malcolm - 2001

The concept party identification lies at the heart of much research on political preferences and behavior in …-Economic Panel Survey (1984-1998), we offer a fresh approach to the concept. Party identification is a stance that people take … negative stance towards one of the parties and a positive stance towards the other major party. Of these, about half display …

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The partisan effects of voter turnout : how conservatives profit from rainy election days

Arnold, Felix; Freier, Ronny - 2015 - This version: March 23, 2015

In this short note, we use data from different elections in the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia between 1975 and 2010 to show that the social democrats generally profit from higher voter turnout at the expense of the conservatives. We deal with the endogeneity of voter turnout by using...

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Divided government versus incumbency externality effect : quasi-experimental evidence on multiple voting decisions

Ade, Florian; Freier, Ronny - 2011

rely on a regression discontinuity design focusing on close election outcomes. We find that the party of the mayor receives … council elections are held simultaneously. With regard to higher level elections, we find no effect for the party identity of …

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Do absolute majorities spend less? : evidence from Germany

Freier, Ronny; Odendahl, Christian - 2012

the case. Using a new method to detect close election outcomes in multi-party systems, we isolate truly exogenous … majority of his own party gains the most, but the party itself does not. -- Fiscal spending ; local election ; absolute …

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Generationen- oder Parteienkonflikt? : eine empirische Analyse der deutschen Hochschulausgaben

Oberndorfer, Ulrich (contributor); … - 2006

In diesem Beitrag wird auf der Basis von Paneldaten für die westdeutschen Bundesländer untersucht, ob und in welchem Maße der demographische Wandel sowie die unterschiedlichen politischen Parteienkonstellationen die Hochschulausgaben auf Länderebene beeinflussen. Wir finden empirische...

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Parties matter in allocating expenditures : evidence from Germany

Potrafke, Niklas (contributor) - 2006

I test if parties matter with respect to the allocation of public expenditures in Germany. Considering the allocation of rights and duties due to the federal structure, two econometric models are estimated. First, a SURE model analyses spending at the federal level for the period from 1950 to...

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Nuclear power, democracy, development, and nuclear warheads : determinants for introducing nuclear power

Sorge, Lars; Neumann, Anne; Hirschhausen, Christian R. von - 2019

This paper analyzes the nature of democratic development in a nation on the process of introducing nuclear power over the period 1960 - 2017 for an unbalanced panel of 171 countries. Given the involved political process of introducing nuclear power and its political importance, as well as the...

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A Schumpeter-inspired approach to the construction of R&D capital stocks

Bitzer, Jürgen; Stephan, Andreas - 2002

A new method for constructing R&D capital stocks is proposed. Following Schumpeter, the development of R&D capital stocks is modelled as a process of creative destruction. Newly generated knowledge is assumed not only to add to the existing R&D capital stocks but also, by displacing old...

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Flipping journals to open : rethinking publishing infrastructure

Fecher, Benedikt; Wagner, Gert G. - 2015

Open access means that research outputs, such as articles and data, are free of restrictions on access and free of … about open access must include a discussion about research infrastructure and innovation in academic publishing. …

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