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We study the effect of economic insecurity on electoral outcomes using data on municipal elections in Italy. We …
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In the third decade of the 21st century, digitization, global events, challenges from authoritarian states, and difficulties of particular democracies to function properly confront democracy with a new series of challenges and opportunities that will force it to reinvent itself. The last decades...
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We study the effect of economic insecurity on electoral outcomes using data on municipal elections in Italy. We …
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both the 2007 and 2010 Federal elections, we are struck by the paucity of falsifiable predictions, with most pundits …
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Barrington Moore's famous line 'no bourgeoisie, no democracy' is one of the most quoted claims in political science. But has the rise of the African middle class promoted democratic consolidation? This paper uses the case of Kenya to investigate the attitudes and behaviours of the middle class....
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We analyze how the introduction of the voting advice application (VAA) smartvote affects voter turnout, voting behavior and electoral outcomes. The Swiss context offers an ideal setting to identify the causal effects of online information with aggregate real world data because smartvote was...
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. -- terrorism ; elections ; accountability …How does electoral accountability affect the effectiveness of terrorism prevention in a democracy? We analyze the … connection between electoral accountability and policy effectiveness in the context of terrorism prevention. We develop a formal …
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How does electoral accountability affect the effectiveness of terrorism prevention in a democracy? We analyze the … connection between electoral accountability and policy effectiveness in the context of terrorism prevention. We develop a formal … objective of terrorism prevention and have symmetric information. We show that electoral pressures to be successful in terrorism …
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In "Are Voters Sensitive to Terrorism? Direct Evidence from the Israeli Electorate," Claude Berrebi and Esteban F. Klor …
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There is surprisingly little evidence on how terror attacks impact elections. With only a few exceptions, previous …
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