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We analyse the Swedish general elections that took place in spring and autumn 1887. Our aim is to discover which groups … that the political landslide in the autumn elections can be attributed to the influence of anti-free trade propaganda …
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participation at general elections and votes for pro-nationalist parties. We combine census data on the sources of school funding …
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general election just one year before. In this paper, the question of where the voters came from and why the voting changed so …
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In models of political economy, institutionalization of free and open elections is presented as infusing competition … into a previously monopolized regime. Due to elections, representative democracies are thought to reflect the will of the … majority as opposed to the will of the elites. I challenge the idea that elections are a necessary condition of a well …
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- and find some evidence in its favour. -- voting ; inflation unemplyment ; Britian ; elections … economic news on the incumbent. In a study of 458 by-elections between 1857 and 1914, we find that voters typically gave new …
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general election just one year before. In this paper, the question of where the voters came from and why the voting changed so …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003883662
We analyse the Swedish general elections that took place in spring and autumn 1887. Our aim is to discover which groups … that the political landslide in the autumn elections can be attributed to the influence of anti-free trade propaganda …. -- voting ; election analysis ; tariffs ; trade policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003947384
We examine the political costs of taxation in early modern France. We focus on efforts to enforce the salt tax, the rate of which varied across regions. Using a spatial difference-in-discontinuities design, we compare municipalities just inside the high-tax region with those just outside, before...
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Who will vote quadratically in large-N elections under quadratic voting (QV)? First, who will vote? Although the core … examine reasons that, in large-N elections, the number of votes that an individual casts may deviate substantially from that …, voting behavior and outcomes would be determined predominately by social and psychological forces, would thereby exhibit few …
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The role of electoral incentives vs. selection is ideally analyzed in a setting where the same legislators are selected to decide on policies under different electoral rules and where voter preferences on policies can be precisely measured. This is the first paper to look at such a situation....
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