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politicians who vote against the party line in roll-call votes. The results do not show that parties account for the voting …
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government redistribution to be a function of the income of the median voter. Because turnout has fallen drastically in the …
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fractionalization and group antagonism reduce the support for redistribution. Whereas within group inequality increases support for … redistribution, inequality between groups have the opposite effect. All these results hold even if a poor group is in majority. Using … increases and between group inequality decreases redistribution. …
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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 …
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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
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...
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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
We study how colleges shape their students' voting habits by linking millions of SAT takers to their college …-enrollment and voting histories. To begin, we show that the fraction of students from a particular college who vote varies … markedly different voting rates. Next, after controlling for students' college application portfolios and pre-college voting …
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men or women. The impact of education on religiosity and voting preference is not working through migration, residential …
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