In this paper, I analyze the voting outcomes of two very similar Swiss referendum ballots concerning the federal … governmentś competency to levy income, capital and turnover taxes to find out how the enfranchisement of women influences public … support for government spending. The first ballot took place shortly before the extension of suffrage to women in February …

adopt suffrage, Switzerland, we demonstrate two main results. First, women suffrage has changed the scope of government much … provide new evidence on how women suffrage has affected government spending. Using data from the last country in Europe to … more than its size. Women are more likely to support expenditures for public goods like environment and public transport …

The role of women in Western societies changed dramatically in the 20th century. We study how political empowerment … affected women's emancipation as reflected in their life choices like marital decisions and labor market participation. The … staggered introduction of female suffrage in Swiss states allows us to exploit the variation in the age women experienced …

We test whether the proactive use of instruments of direct democracy by voters can help to explain fiscal …

groups, we can better judge what the women of the last two centuries accomplished by focusing on the voting right as their …This Article explores the history of American women's long struggle for the vote; it does so to illuminate the efficacy …

a large-scale shock to the composition of the electorate - the introduction of female suffrage in Switzerland in 1971 …

allows us to focus on revealed preferences for direct democracy and to identify factors which explain this preference …. Empirical results suggests support for direct democracy is rather related to dissatisfaction with representative democracy in …