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Majority vote on educational standards

Schwager, Robert - 2018

The direct democratic choice of an examination standard, i.e., a performance level required to graduate, is evaluated …

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Majority vote on educational standards : conference paper

Schwager, Robert - 2013 - First draft

The direct democratic choice of an examination standard, i.e., a performance level required to graduate, is evaluated …

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The Political Economy of School Choice : Randomized School Admissions and Voter Participation

Hastings, Justine S. - 2006

We provide empirical evidence on the determinants of voter turnout using the randomized outcomes of a school choice … lottery. We show that those losing the lottery to attend their first-choice school are significantly more likely to vote in … the ensuing school board election than lottery winners. The effect of losing the school choice lottery on voting is …

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Majority Vote on Educational Standards

Schwager, Robert - 2018

The direct democratic choice of an examination standard, i.e., a performance level required to graduate, is evaluated …

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The Median Voter Data Set : Voter Preferences across 50 Democracies from 1945

De Neve, Jan‐Emmanuel - 2009

The median voter, or the ideological position of the electoral center, has fi gured widely across literatures. This paper introduces a median voter data set that allows for comparison across time and across countries. The data set employs the statistics provided by the Comparative Manifesto...

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The political economy of commitment to policies

Delfgaauw, Josse; Swank, Otto H. - 2023

IPCC (2022) documents a looming gap between climate goals and implemented policies and points to a lack of political commitment. We study policymakers' incentives to commit. A policymaker decides on a policy to encourage citizens to make investments and determines the degree of flexibility to...

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On some of the consequences of being possible to call early elections

Caleiro, António - 2005

This note presents some of the consequences due to the possibility of having early elections. First of all, elections, whether exogenously or endogenously determined, are relevant to challenge the well known neutrality principle of economic policies under rational expectations. Furthermore, in...

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Property taxes and politicians : evidence from school budget elections

Barr, Andrew C.; Dee, Thomas S. - In: National tax journal 69 (2016) 3, pp. 517-544

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Electoral impacts of uncovering public school quality : evidence from Brazilian municipalities

Firpo, Sergio; Pieri, Renan; Souza, André Portela - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 18 (2017) 1, pp. 1-17

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Sozioökonomische Determinanten extremistischer Wahlerfolge in Deutschland : das Beispiel der Europawahlen 1994 und 1999

Rotte, Ralph; Steininger, Martin - 2000

Empirical research on the determinants of right and left-wing extremist election successes is still dominated by descriptive statistical methods. The existing literature in political economy and political science mainly relies on interviews and survey results as well as on qualitative analyses...

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