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The political cost of being soft on crime : evidence from a natural experiment

Drago, Francesco; Galbiati, Roberto; Sobbrio, Francesco - 2017

We provide evidence about voters' response to crime control policies. We exploit a natural experiment arising from the Italian 2006 collective pardon releasing about one third of the prison population. The pardon created idiosyncratic incentives to recidivate across released individuals and...

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The political cost of being soft on crime : evidence from a natural experiment

Drago, Francesco; Galbiati, Roberto; Sobbrio, Francesco - 2017

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Conservative politicians and voting on same-sex marriage

Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - 2017

the majority increased by one percentage point, the likelihood of voting in favour of same-sex marriage decreased by …

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Politicians' coherence and government debt

Bellettini, Giorgio; Roberti, Paolo - 2016

We model a society that values the coherence between past policy platforms and current implemented policy, and where policy platforms partially commit candidates to their future actions. If an incumbent politician seeks to be reelected, she has to use her platforms to commit to moderate policies...

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Rewarding conservative politicians? : evidence from voting on same-sex marriage

Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - 2021

We examine whether voters rewarded conservative politicians who were voting in favor of same-sex marriage. Data is …

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Does a district-vote matter for the behavior of politicians? : a textual analysis of parliamentary speeches

Born, Andreas; Janssen, Aljoscha - 2020

her party-line. A district-election does not affect roll call voting behavior causally, possibly due to overall high … adherence to party voting. Analyzing the parliamentary speeches of each MP allows us to overcome the high party discipline with … regard to parliamentary voting. Using textual analysis and machine learning techniques, we create two measures of closeness …

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Who is the ultimate boss of legislators : voters, special interest groups or parties?

Stadelmann, David; Torrens, Gustavo - 2020

Politicians have multiple principals. We investigate the weights that politicians put on the revealed preferences of their constituents, special interest groups and party when deciding on legislative proposals. Preferences of constituents, special interest groups and parties are directly...

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Gender gaps in political careers : evidence from competitive elections

Cipullo, Davide - 2021

two-stage elections, candidates are admitted to the second round of voting based on the outcome of the first round. I find …

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Homophily in voting behavior : evidence from preferential voting

Coufalová, Lucie; Mikula, Stepan; Ševčík, Michal - 2022

Homophily in Voting Behavior: Evidence from Preferential Voting Abstract: Homophily is a strong determinant of many … preferential voting from Czech parliamentary elections in 2006, 2010, 2013, and 2017 matched with 2011 Census data to identify the … effect of homophily on voting behavior. We find that a one percent increase in the share of the municipality’s population …

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Do politicians affect firm outcomes? Evidence from connections to the German Federal Parliament

Diegmann, André; Pohlan, Laura; Weber, Andrea - 2024

We study how connections to German federal parliamentarians affect firm dynamics by constructing a novel dataset to measure connections between politicians and the universe of firms. To identify the causal effect of access to political power, we exploit (i) new appointments to the company...

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