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Essays on the behavior of firms and politicians
Riem, Marina - 2017
politicians who vote against the party line in roll-call votes. The results do not show that parties account for the voting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011741962
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Between Beveridge and Bismarck : preferences for redistribution through public pensions
Breyer, Friedrich; Breunig, Christian; Kapteina, Mark; … - 2024 - This version: 19.06.2024
between beneficiary groups lowers perceived fairness and increases the demand for redistribution. Both citizens and … favor of more redistribution from high to low earners in the retirement phase. Our design utilizes a representative survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014563788
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Affecting public support for economic policies : evidence from a survey experiment about rent control in Germany
Dolls, Mathias; Schüle, Paul Valentin; Windsteiger, Lisa - 2023
We conduct a survey experiment among 18,000 respondents in Germany to examine the determinants of support for rent control policies. Highlighting undesirable price and supply effects lowers respondents' agreement with rent control, while pointing out that it can prevent displacement of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014292817
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Terrorism and voting : the rise of right-wing populism in Germany
Sabet, Navid; Liebald, Marius; Friebel, Guido - 2023
Can right-wing terrorism increase support for far-right populist parties, and if so, why? Exploiting quasi-random variation between successful and failed attacks across German municipalities, we find that successful attacks lead to significant increases in the vote share for the right-wing,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014364725
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Democratic participation and the size of regions: an empirical study using data on German counties
Seitz, Helmut - 2008
The paper examines the relation between political participation and the size of regions taking German counties as observational units. The paper makes several contributions to the literature. To begin with, we measure political participation along two dimensions namely voter turnout, which is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264289
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Electoral thresholds and political outcomes: quasi-experimental evidence from a reform in Germany
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Lopes da Fonseca, Mariana - 2013
In 2001, the state parliament of the German federal state of Hesse abolished a 5 percent legal electoral threshold for local elections. This reform had a stronger effect on municipalities with larger councils because implicit electoral thresholds decrease with council size. Exploiting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010213030
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Minority salience and political extremism
Colussi, Tommaso; Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Pestel, Nico - 2016
This paper studies electoral effects of exposure to religious minorities in the context of Muslim communities in Germany. Using unique data on mosques' construction and election results across municipalities over the period 1980-2013, we find that the presence of a mosque increases political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594690
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Do parties punish MPs for voting against the party line?
Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas; Riem, Marina - 2017
positions. The dataset includes the voting behavior of 257 MPs in 218 roll-call votes. Our results do not show that parties … account for the voting behavior by punishing politicians who have voted against the party line. Political parties may attract … different groups of voters by tolerating politicians who vote according to their own credo. Qualities other than the voting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011659465
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Jobs, crime, and votes : a short-run evaluation of the refugee crisis in Germany
Gehrsitz, Markus; Ungerer, Martin - 2016
. 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/10011572599
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Instrumental variables and causal mechanisms : unpacking the effect of trade on workers and voters
Dippel, Christian; Gold, Robert; Heblich, Stephan; … - 2017
This paper shows that import exposure affects voting behavior because it affects local labor markets. We develop a new … turmoil. The voting response to import exposure can entirely be explained by the labor market adjustments to import exposure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011781026