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Do Parties Punish MPs for Voting against the Party Line?
Kauder, Björn - 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/10012953695
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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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Judges and Taxes : Judicial Review, Judicial Independence and the Size of Government
Tridimas, George - 2005
The study investigates how judicial review of policy and judicial independence affect the relative size of government. Judicial oversight of policy is the authority of courts to check the legality of policy measures and annul measures which are incompatible with the constitution or are enacted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014067112
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Habemus Papam? Polarization and Conflict in the Papal States
Pino, Francisco - 2020
We study the effect of divisions within the elite on the probability of internal conflict in the Papal States between 1295 and 1846. We assemble a new database using information on cardinals that participated in conclaves during this period, and construct measures of polarization and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843160
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Habemus Papam? : polarization and conflict in the Papal States
Pino, Francisco; Vidal-Robert, Jordi - 2020
We study the effect of divisions within the elite on the probability of internal conflict in the Papal States between 1295 and 1846. We assemble a new database using information on cardinals that participated in conclaves during this period, and construct measures of polarization and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161076
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Electoral Competition and Endogenous Political Institutions : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Germany
Lopes da Fonseca, Mariana - 2015
Do established parties change political institutions to disadvantage smaller, non-mainstream parties if the latters' electoral prospects improve? We study this question with a natural experiment from the German federal state of Hesse. The experiment is the abolishment of an explicit electoral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024654
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Electoral competition and endogenous political institutions : quasi-experimental evidence from Germany ; conference paper
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Lopes da Fonseca, Mariana - 2014
Do established parties change political institutions to disadvantage smaller, non-mainstream parties if the latters' electoral prospects improve? We study this question with a natural experiment from the German federal State of Hesse. The experiment is the abolishment of an explicit electoral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010484319
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Electoral competition and endogenous political institutions : quasi-experimental evidence from Germany
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Lopes da Fonseca, Mariana - 2015
Do established parties change political institutions to disadvantage smaller, nonmainstream parties if the latters ́electoral prospects improve? We study this question with a natural experiment from the German federal state of Hesse. The experiment is the abolishment of an explicit electoral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010505165
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The ratification of ILO conventions : a failure time analysis
Boockmann, Bernhard - 2000
There are over 180 ILO conventions in many areas of labour law, industrial relations and social security, but they are not ratified universally: for the conventions adopted between 1975 and 1995, the cumulated probability of ratification is about 13 per cent ten years after their adoption. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001468404
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Mixed Motives : An Empirical Analysis of Ilo Roll-Call Votes
Boockmann, Bernhard - 2008
In this empirical paper, we look at individual voting behaviour of government delegates to the International Labour … Organization (ILO). We distinguish between the instrumental motive for voting, which consists in the chance that one's vote may … from 1977 to 1995. The hypothesis that voting is only instrumental is clearly rejected by the data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014113349