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Intergenerational Correlations of Extreme Right-Wing Party Preferences and Attitudes Toward Immigration

Avdeenko, Alexandra - 2015

This study analyzes the importance of parental socialization on the development of children's far right-wing preferences and attitudes towards immigration. Using longitudinal data from Germany, our intergenerational estimates suggest that the strongest and most important predictor for young...

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Do Party Positions Affect the Public's Policy Preferences?

Grewenig, Elisabeth - 2019

The standard assumption of exogenous policy preferences implies that parties set their positions according to their voters' preferences. We investigate the reverse effect: Are the electorates' policy preferences responsive to party positions? In a representative German survey, we inform...

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Constitutions and Economic Development : Evidence from the American Indian Nations

Akee, Randall - 2012

This paper presents an empirical examination of economic and institutional development. Utilizing a novel data set on American Indian tribal nations, we investigate how constitutional design affects economic development, while holding the broader legal and political environment fixed....

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Growing Up in a Recession : Beliefs and the Macroeconomy

Giuliano, Paola - 2009

Do generations growing up during recessions have different socio-economic beliefs than generations growing up in good times? We study the relationship between recessions and beliefs by matching macroeconomic shocks during early adulthood with self-reported answers from the General Social Survey....

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Anti-Elite Politics and Emotional Reactions to Socio-Economic Problems. Experimental Evidence on 'Pocketbook Anger' from France, Germany, and the United States

Marx, Paul - 2019

Many observers have noticed the importance of anger in contemporary politics, particularly with reference to populism. This article addresses the question under which conditions people become angry about a specific aspect of their lives: their personal financial situation. Specifically, it asks...

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Job Loss Fears and (Extremist) Party Identification : First Evidence from Panel Data

Geishecker, Ingo - 2012

There is a large body of literature analyzing the relationship between objective economic conditions and voting behavior, but there is very little evidence of how perceived economic insecurity impacts on political preferences. Using seventeen years of household panel data from the German...

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The Politicized Pandemic : Ideological Polarization and the Behavioral Response to COVID-19

Grimalda, Gianluca; Murtin, Fabrice; Pipke, David; … - 2022

correlates positively with adherence to protective behaviors. Liberal political ideology predicts higher levels of protective … behavior than conservative ideology, independently of the differences in prosociality across the two groups. Differences …

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How Do Voters Respond to Information? Evidence from a Randomized Campaign

Kendall, Chad - 2013

expose different areas of the polity to controlled informational treatments about the valence and ideology of the incumbent … elicited beliefs, we are able to structurally assess the relative weights voters place upon a candidate's valence and ideology … only campaigning on valence brings more votes to the incumbent. With respect to ideology, cross-learning occurs, as voters …

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The Right Look : Conservative Politicians Look Better and Their Voters Reward it

Berggren, Niclas - 2011

the right ﾖ use beauty as a cue for candidate ideology or quality in the municipal elections …

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The Efficacy and Efforts of Interest Groups in Post Elections Policy Formation

Epstein, Gil S. - 2012

weighted by power. Our second result clarifies how the success of an interest group hinges on the dominance of its ideology in …

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