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Left-behind regions in Poland, Germany, Czechia : classification and electoral implications

Bernard, Josef; Refisch, Martin; Grzelak, Anna; … - 2025

Wahlverhalten erklären. Das Paper nimmt Bezug auf die grundlegenden Argumente der Debatte über die "Geographie der Unzufriedenheit … Wahlverhalten erweitert wird. Unser multidimensionaler Ansatz zur Messung regionaler Disparitäten ermöglicht eine umfassende … "Abgehängtsein" und Wahlverhalten variiert in ihrer Stärke zwischen den verschiedenen Ländern. In Tschechien bestehen starke …

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Marginal Benefits? Electoral Geography and Economic Outcomes

Wokker, Chris - 2019

I exploit a large natural experiment in Australia that saw the House of Representatives expand from 125 districts to 148 districts. This required substantial changes to electoral boundaries, which, for the first time, were determined by a body that was not subject to ministerial discretion. As a...

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Regional deprivation and populism : evidence from Germany and the U.S.

Bayerlein, Michael - 2022

A widely held view is that increasing globalisation and inequality are fostering support for populist actors. Surprisingly, when focusing on Germany and the U.S., populist voting is highest in less globalised regions with rather equal income distributions. Addressing this puzzle, I ask how the...

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British voting intentions and the far reach of 11 September terrorist attacks in New York

Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2023

Terrorist attacks have often been found to impact voting behaviours in the country of the attack. Here I study the impact of 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York on voting preferences in the UK, concluding that 9/11 impacted the voting intentions of the British, significantly increasing...

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Daughters and left-wing voting

Oswald, Andrew J. (contributor); … - 2006

This paper provides evidence that daughters make people more left-wing. Having sons, by contrast, makes them more right-wing. Parents, politicians and voters are probably not aware of this phenomenon -- nor are social scientists. The paper discusses its economic and evolutionary roots. It also...

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Does money make people right-wing and inegalitarian? : a longitudinal study of lottery winners

Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014

The causes of people's political attitudes are largely unknown. We study this issue by exploiting longitudinal data on lottery winners. Comparing people before and after a lottery windfall, we show that winners tend to switch towards support for a right-wing political party and to become less...

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Money can't buy EU love : European funds and the Brexit referendum

Fidrmuc, Jan; Hulényi, Martin; Tunali, Çiğdem Börke - 2016

We explore the role of the transfers that UK regions received from the European structural and cohesion funds, as well as other economic and social factors, in determining the support for the Remain vote in the Brexit referendum. We find that past European transfers have played virtually no role...

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Whot voted for Brexit? : a comprehensive district-level analysis

Becker, Sascha O.; Fetzer, Thiemo; Novy, Dennis - 2017

On 23 June 2016, the British electorate voted to leave the European Union. We analyze vote and turnout shares across 380 local authority areas in the United Kingdom. We find that exposure to the EU in terms of immigration and trade provides relatively little explanatory power for the referendum...

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Was Brexit caused by the unhappy and the old?

Liberini, Federica; Oswald, Andrew J.; Proto, Eugenio; … - 2017

On 23 June 2016, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union (so-called 'Brexit'). This paper uses newly released information, from the Understanding Society data set, to examine the characteristics of individuals who were for and against Brexit. Two key findings emerge. First, unhappy...

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Does inequality harm democracy? : an empirical investigation on the UK

Soci, Anna; Maccagnan, Anna; Mantovani, Daniela - 2014

This paper presents an empirical investigation about the effect of an increase in economic inequality on some aspects of the quality of a democracy. The main novelty of the paper lies in its methodology: it applies to a single country (instead of a pool of countries) - the UK - in a long run...

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