recommendations. We find that voting recommendations do indeed matter, implying that even in a secularized world, religion plays a … crucial role in voting decisions. …

recommendations. We find that voting recommendations do indeed matter, implying that even in a secularized world, religion plays a … crucial role in voting decisions. …

Who will vote quadratically in large-N elections under quadratic voting (QV)? First, who will vote? Although the core …, voting behavior and outcomes would be determined predominately by social and psychological forces, would thereby exhibit few … that require a different research agenda to bring into focus. Some of our analysis also has implications for voting …

We use a change in the voting procedures of one of the two chambers of the Swiss parliament to explore how transparency … affects the voting behavior of its members. Until 2013, the Council of States (Ständerat) had voted by a show of hands. While …-consuming screening of online videos. In 2014, halfway through the legislative period, the chamber switched to electronic voting. Since …

The aim of this study is to analyze redistribution within the Austrian tax-benefit system. In this work we take a … two kinds of redistribution: between the households belonging to different income groups, and between generations, taking …

The aim of this study is to analyze redistribution within the Austrian tax-benefit system. In this work we take a … two kinds of redistribution: between the households belonging to different income groups, and between generations, taking …

for redistribution. We leverage a quasi-experiment in Finland, where every year on the so-called tax day, the authorities … earnings of the top 10% are unfair, but that public support for redistribution remains largely unaffected. A notable exception … are top earners, who decrease their support for redistribution, and young people, who increase their support for …

in fiscal redistribution across modern welfare states. Contrary to the assertion that there is robust evidence in support … than earnings) is positively associated with fiscal redistribution. In sum, revisiting an influential contribution to the … literature offers no support for the proposition that the structure of inequality has consequences for fiscal redistribution. …