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The choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems: A survey of experimental research
Dannenberg, Astrid; Gallier, Carlo - 2019
A growing experimental literature studies the endogenous choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems arising in prisoners' dilemmas, public goods games, and common pool resource games. Participants in these experiments have the opportunity to influence the rules of the game before they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012011030
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Mixed motives: an empirical analysis of ILO roll-call votes
Boockmann, Bernhard - 2002
In this empirical paper, we look at individual voting behaviour of government delegates to the International Labour … Organization (ILO). We distinguish between the instrumental motive for voting, which consists in the chance that one´s vote may … from 1977 to 1995. The hypothesis that voting is only instrumental is clearly rejected by the data. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298082
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Mixed motives: an empirical analysis of ILO roll-call votes
Boockmann, Bernhard - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002
In this empirical paper, we look at individual voting behaviour of government delegates to the International Labour … Organization (ILO). We distinguish between the instrumental motive for voting, which consists in the chance that one´s vote may … from 1977 to 1995. The hypothesis that voting is only instrumental is clearly rejected by the data. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097496
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Democracy and compliance in public goods games
Gallier, Carlo - 2017
voting. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735628
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Jobs, crime, and votes: A short-run evaluation of the refugee crisis in Germany
Gehrsitz, Markus; Ungerer, Martin - 2018
. Yet, little is known about the impact of this inflow on labor markets, crime, and voting behavior. This article uses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872758
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Direct democracy and local public finances under cooperative federalism
Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Grigoriadis, … - 2013
This paper exploits the introduction of the right of referenda at the local level in the German state of Bavaria in 1995 to study the fiscal effects of direct democracy. In the first part of the paper, we establish the relationship between referenda activity and fiscal performance by using a new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316117
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The effect of direct democracy on the level and structure of local taxes
Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Heinemann, … - 2014
We study the effect of direct democracy on local taxation. Our setting is the German federal state of Bavaria, where in 1995 a state-wide referendum introduced the possibility to initiate direct democratic legislation into the local government code. Relying on a sample of all Bavarian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329224
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The indirect effects of direct democracy: Local government size and non-budgetary voter initiatives
Asatryan, Zareh - 2014
, nor the responsibility of voting on the implied costs of these initiatives. By exploiting a novel dataset containing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329225
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Vetoing and inaugurating policy like others do: Evidence on spatial interactions in voter initiatives
Asatryan, Zareh; Havlik, Annika; Streif, Frank - 2015
A sizeable literature studies whether governments strategically interact with each other through policy-diffusion, learning, fiscal and yardstick competition. This paper asks whether, in the presence of direct democratic institutions, spatial interactions additionally result from voters' direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307510
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Vote buying in the US Congress
Matter, Ulrich; Roberti, Paolo; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2019
groups are involved in vote buying. Testing the theoretical predictions based on two decades of roll-call voting in the U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140943