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Opening hours of polling stations and voter turnout : evidence from a natural experiment

Potrafke, Niklas; Rösel, Felix - 2016

Voter turnout has declined in many industrialized countries, raising the question of whether electoral institutions increase voter turnout. We exploit an electoral reform in the Austrian state of Burgenland as a natural experiment to identify the causal effect of opening hours of polling...

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Compulsory voting, voter turnout and asymmetrical habit-formation

Gäbler, Stefanie; Potrafke, Niklas; Rösel, Felix - 2017

We examine whether compulsory voting influences habit-formation in voting. In Austria, some states temporarily …

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Migrating extremists

Ochsner, Christian; Rösel, Felix - 2016 - This version: February 25, 2016

unexpected division of the state of Upper Austria into a US and a Soviet occupation zone after WWII. Zoning prompts large … the right-wing Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) throughout the entire post-WWII period, but not before WWII. We can exclude …

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A banana republic? : trust in electoral institutions in Western democracies : evidence from a presidential election in Austria

Potrafke, Niklas; Rösel, Felix - 2016

democracies. The second ballot of the 2016 Presidential election in Austria needed to be repeated because of inconsistencies in …

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Electoral externalities in federations : evidence from German opinion polls

Frei, Xenia; Langer, Sebastian; Lehmann, Robert; … - 2017 - This version: February 20, 2017

state of Berlin and the federal level in Germany. State voting intentions for the state and for the federal parliament are …

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Public infrastructure and regional resilience : evidence from the 1918 Spanish flu in Germany

Foertsch, Mona; Rösel, Felix - 2023

Can public infrastructure help regions to mitigate large shocks? We examine how hospital infrastructure contributes to regional resilience in the event of serious health emergencies. During the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, four out of every 1,000 Germans died. We find lower influenza mortality...

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The German Local Population Database (GPOP), 1871 to 2019

Rösel, Felix - 2022

I present the first database of historical local population figures for all Germany. The German Local Population …-collected and assembled from more than 50 sources. The data reflect 150 years of regional development and disparities in Germany …. For example, East and West Germany are heavily diverging in population since 1945; and the divide was not reversed but …

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Elite persistence and policy persistence : re-installed mayors from Weimar Germany

Nitschke, Remo; Rösel, Felix - 2023

mechanisms for policy persistence. Several city mayors serving in democratic Weimar Germany were expelled by the Nazis in 1933 … East Germany and in former German cities in present-day Poland-places where political elites or most of the population …

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Sports clubs and populism : quasi-experimental evidence from German cities

Foertsch, Mona; Rösel, Felix - 2023

Does social capital always promote solidarity and democracy, or are social networks such as sports clubs also vulnerable to populism? We exploit quasi-experimental variation in sports club membership in German cities. Sports clubs are booming in cities with successful soccer teams which pass the...

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Activated history : the case of the Turkish sieges of Vienna

Ochsner, Christian; Rösel, Felix - 2017 - This version: July 26, 2017

Austria. In 2005, Austrian right-wing populists started to campaign against Turks and Muslims and explicitly referred to the …

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