In this paper, I analyze the voting outcomes of two very similar Swiss referendum ballots concerning the federal … governmentś 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 …

We test whether the proactive use of instruments of direct democracy by voters can help to explain fiscal …

groups, we can better judge what the women of the last two centuries accomplished by focusing on the voting right as their …This Article explores the history of American women's long struggle for the vote; it does so to illuminate the efficacy …

allows us to focus on revealed preferences for direct democracy and to identify factors which explain this preference …. Empirical results suggests support for direct democracy is rather related to dissatisfaction with representative democracy in …

We document the political participation of women in Indian democracy by comparing the turnout of women voters to men in … in the gender bias in voting over time. In particular, we find that the sex ratio of voters (the number of women voters … declining gender bias in voting is across all the states, including the traditionally backward “BIMARU” states of Bihar, Madhya …

discipline their representatives through referenda that countered the results of voting by political representatives. …

discipline their representatives through referenda that countered the results of voting by political representatives. …