Every day, three women are murdered in the United States by a current or former partner. Yet policy action to prevent … crimes against women in the developing world. This paper investigates whether the election of a female politician reduces the …

Broadening democracy by lowering the voting age is on the political agenda in many democratic societies. Previous … democracy and affects citizens' willingness to lower the voting age. Moreover, we find systematic price reactions of present … referendums on lowering the voting age from 20 to 18. We focus on the role of institutional price variations by (i) the depth of …

where women narrowly won the election with those where men narrowly won. This strategy allows us to identify the causal …

. We examine how citizens evaluate and react to the enfranchisement of non-citizens in Switzerland. This paper combines a …' attitudes toward non-citizens and their perception of democracy. We find evidence that citizens become more skeptical toward … additional migration, yet show a tendency to reduce ethnocentric attitudes toward non-citizens residing in Switzerland and are …

rates. The paper incorporates these characteristics of voter choices into a probabilistic voting model with public spending …

Using a natural voting experiment in Switzerland that encompasses a 160-year period (1848-2009), we investigate whether … one referendum was held. We also show that when constituents face a higher level of complexity, they listen to parliament … rather than interest groups. -- Bounded Rationality ; Voting ; Referenda Attention ; Rules of Thumb …

the extreme persistence of the effect to the relative incidence of these age groups in the voting population, and explore …