analyze the voting outcomes of two very similar Swiss referendum ballots concerning the federal government's competency to …How does the enfranchisement of women influence public support for government spending? To answer this question, I … levy income, capital and turnover taxes. The first ballot took place shortly before the extension of suffrage to women in …

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 …

Switzerland, we test this hypothesis empirically. We analyze the voting outcomes of two very similar referendum ballots concerning … extending the suffrage to women should increase the approval for government spending. By utilizing a natural experiment from … before the extension of suffrage to women in February 1971, and the other thereafter. To shed light on gender differences in …

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

democracy (via initiatives and referenda) and of federal structure (local autonomy) systematically and sizeably raise self …

We combine community-level outcomes of 27 votes about immigration issues in Switzerland with census data to estimate … anti-immigration votes, while the presence of culturally similar immigrants does not affect natives' voting behavior at all …

which lead to these hypotheses are presented as well as the theory of expressive voting, and a survey of the available … theory of expressive voting …

of voting systems, like the impact of compulsory voting or registration systems. Fewer efforts have been devoted to …

recipients by comparing higher education institutions within border-county pairs. Lastly, using individual-level data on voting …

recipients by comparing higher education institutions within border-county pairs. Lastly, using individual-level data on voting …