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Did vasco da gama matter for European markets? : Testing Frederick Lane's hypotheses fifty years later
O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003259112
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Did Vasco da Gama matter for European markets? : Testing Frederick Lane's hypotheses fifty years later
O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003294051
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Did Vasco da Gama matter for European markets? : Testing Frederick Lane's hypotheses fifty years later
O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj (contributor);  … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003289097
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Opening hours of polling stations and voter turnout : evidence from a natural experiment
Potrafke, Niklas; Rösel, Felix - 2016
party decreased in the course of the reform, while the vote shares of the social democratic party and of the populist … rightwing party (both parties attract blue-collar workers) increased. Enhancing participation in elections by extending the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521780
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The Democratic-Republican presidential growth gap and the partisan balance of the state government
Cahan, Dodge; Potrafke, Niklas - 2017
. To the contrary, given the tendency of electoral support at the state level to swing away from the party of the incumbent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663552
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The growth in military expenditure in Germany 1951 - 2011: did parties matter?
Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - 2015
We examine whether government ideology was correlated with the growth in military expenditure in Germany over the period 1951-2011. By using various measures of government ideology, the results do not show any effect. The exception is an ideology measure based on the Comparative Manifesto...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010515371
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Just hire your spouse! : evidence from a political scandal in Bavaria
Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - 2014
We investigate a case of political favoritism. Some members of the Bavarian parliament hired relatives as office employees who were paid using taxpayers' money. The family scandal was a hot issue in the German media because of the upcoming state and federal elections. We examine whether being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010459205
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Election systems, the "beauty premium" in politics, and the beauty of dissent
Potrafke, Niklas; Rösch, Marcus; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2020
candidates to nominate, and, third, do elected MPs use their beauty premium to reap some independence from their party? Using the … German election system that combines first-past-the-post election with party-list proportional representation, our results … against the party line than their less attractive peers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213915
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Election systems, the "beauty premium" in politics, and the beauty of dissent
Potrafke, Niklas; Rösch, Marcus; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2020
candidates to nominate, and, third, do elected MPs use their beauty premium to reap some independence from their party? Using the … German election system that combines first-past-the-post election with party-list proportional representation, our results … against the party line than their less attractive peers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219353
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Election systems, the "beauty premium" in politics, and the beauty of dissent
Potrafke, Niklas; Rösch, Marcus; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2020
candidates to nominate, and, third, do elected MPs use their beauty premium to reap some independence from their party? Using the … German election system that combines first-past-the-post election with party-list proportional representation, our results … against the party line than their less attractive peers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012220044