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Do party positions affect the public's policy preferences?
Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina - 2019
The standard assumption of exogenous policy preferences implies that parties set their positions according to their voters' preferences. We investigate the reverse effect: Are the electorates' policy preferences responsive to party positions? In a representative German survey, we inform...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011990098
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Do party positions affect the public's policy preferences?
Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina - 2019
The standard assumption of exogenous policy preferences implies that parties set their positions according to their voters' preferences. We investigate the reverse effect: Are the electorates' policy preferences responsive to party positions? In a representative German survey, we inform...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011995997
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Do party positions affect the public's policy preferences?
Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina - 2019
The standard assumption of exogenous policy preferences implies that parties set their positions according to their voters' preferences. We investigate the reverse effect: Are the electorates' policy preferences responsive to party positions? In a representative German survey, we inform...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012033537
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Is It the Economic Policy, Stupid? Economic Policy, Political Parties & the Gubernatorial Incumbent Advantage
Bennett, Daniel L. - 2018
Incumbent politicians have a well-known advantage in seeking re-election. Using the Economic Freedom of North America dataset, we examine how changes in economic policy during an incumbent governor's tenure influence the probability of losing their re-election bid. Put simply, does economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918533
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Is it the Economic Policy, Stupid? Economic Policy, Political Parties & the Gubernatorial Incumbent Advantage
Bennett, Daniel L. - 2018
Incumbent politicians have a well-known advantage in seeking re-election. Using the Economic Freedom of North America dataset, we examine how changes in economic policy during an incumbent governor's tenure influence the probability of losing their re-election bid. In other words, does economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918548
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Voting with your wallet? : municipal budget policy and election results
Baert, Stijn; Matthijs, Herman; Verdievel, Ilse - 2018
In this paper, the authors examine the impact of municipal budget policy on the percentage of votes for the incumbent majority parties in subsequent elections. They contribute to the academic literature by examining the combined influence of taxes, expenditures and debt. Based on data for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011857834
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The behavioral mechanisms of voluntary cooperation across culturally diverse societies : evidence from the US, the UK, Morocco, and Turkey
Weber, Till O.; Schulz, Jonathan F.; Beranek, Benjamin; … - 2023
We examine the role of cooperative preferences, beliefs, and punishments to uncover potential cross … beliefs explain cooperation - we show that cooperation is mostly driven by differences in beliefs rather than cooperative … subject pools and highlights the central role of beliefs in explaining differences in voluntary cooperation within and across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014338895
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The impact of communication regimes on group rationality : experimental evidence
Meub, Lukas; Proeger, Till - 2014
learning experiment. We find that virtual communication leads to a substantial deterioration of group rationality for a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010234002
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The impact of communication regimes and cognitive abilities on group rationality : experimental evidence
Meub, Lukas; Proeger, Till - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 135 (2017), pp. 229-238
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011752190
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Strategic Campaigns and Redistributive Politics
Schultz, Christian - 2003
The paper investigates strategic campaigning in a model of redistributive politics in a society with many groups and two parties. Campaigns are informative, and parties can target campaigns to different groups. Voters are uncertain about whether parties favor special groups. The parties will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320881