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Incumbency as the Major Advantage : The Electoral Advantage for Parties of Incumbent Mayors

Freier, Ronny - 2011

This paper provides empirical evidence on the party incumbency advantage in mayoral elections in Germany. Using a regression discontinuity design on a data set of about 25,000 elections, I estimate a causal incumbency effect of 38-40 percentage points in the probability of winning the next mayor...

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Religious Heterogeneity and Fiscal Policy : Evidence from German Reunification

Freier, Ronny; Geys, Benny; Holm, Joshua - 2013

Theoretical work based on social identity theory and in-group favoritism predicts that increased population diversity (e.g., due to immigration) reduces support for redistributive public policies. In this article, we add to the empirical literature testing this prediction in three ways. First,...

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Religious heterogeneity and fiscal policy : evidence from German reunification

Freier, Ronny; Geys, Benny; Holm, Joshua - 2013

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Incumbency as the major advantage : the electoral advantage for parties of incumbent mayors

Freier, Ronny - 2011

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Do parties matter? : estimating the effect of political power in multi-party systems

Freier, Ronny; Odendahl, Christian - 2012

This paper estimates the effect of political power on tax policies in municipal councils under a proportional election system. The main challenge in estimating the causal effect of parties on policy is to isolate the effect of power from underlying voter preferences and the selection effect of...

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Incumbency, party identity and governmental lead : evidence for heterogeneous incumbency effects for Germany

Ade, Florian; Freier, Ronny; Odendahl, Christian - 2011

government and opposition? We first present a theoretical discussion on the possible heterogeneity of incumbency effects in a … in government. This effect is robust and shows even in state elections that are unrelated to federal elections - calling …

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Do Parties Matter? Estimating the Effect of Political Power in Multi-Party Systems

Freier, Ronny; Odendahl, Christian - 2012

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A Logistic Growth Law for Government Expenditures : An Explanatory Analysis

Florio, Massimo; Colautti, Sara - 2003

Wagner's Law would imply an exponential growth process of the ratio between public expenditures and national income (G/Y). However the law may be rejected both on theoretical and empirical reasons, because it disregards the role of ever increasing distortionary taxation. But, under some...

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The Bigger the Better? Evidence of the Effect of Government Size on Life Satisfaction Around the World

Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2005

This paper empirically analyzes the question whether government involvement in the economy is conducive or detrimental … neoclassical economic theory, which predicts that government plays an unambiguously positive role for individuals' quality of life … regulation, thereby harming voters' quality of life. Our results show that life satisfaction decreases with higher government …

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Fighting corruption when existing corruption-control levels count : what do wealth effects tell us?

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012

(an) tool(impediment) in(to) the fight against corruption in Low(Middle) income countries. (2) Democracy increases (decreases …

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