In this paper, I analyze the voting outcomes of two very similar Swiss referendum ballots concerning the federal … government's competency to levy income, capital and turnover taxes to find out how the enfranchisement of women influences public … support for government spending. The first ballot took place shortly before the extension of suffrage to women in February …

Alienation to politics weakens political competition and can undermine the acceptance and legitimacy of democracy as a …

experiment from Switzerland, I test this hypothesis empirically. I analyze the voting outcomes of two very similar referendum …Does the enfranchisement of women lead to an increase in public support for government spending? By utilizing a natural … place shortly before the extension of suffrage to women in February 1971, and the other thereafter. To shed light on the …

with different intensities of democracy. Specifically, we consider the implications of political (dis)parity between the … unified framework to study the direct and indirect effects of democracy by combining state capacity investment and … probabilistic voting. Paradoxically, while stronger electoral contestability leads to higher public good provision and lower …

general public. In a democracy, electoral competition and information provided by the media may keep such rent extraction at … substantially reduce direct measures of legal political rents among local governments in a non-corrupt democracy (Sweden). …