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Elite Influence? Religion, Economics, and the Rise of the Nazis
Spenkuch, Jörg; Tillmann, Philipp - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Adolf Hitler's seizure of power was one of the most consequential events of the twentieth century. Yet, our understanding of which factors fueled the astonishing rise of the Nazis remains highly incomplete. This paper shows that religion played an important role in the Nazi party's electoral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108831
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Micro evidence on inter-party vote movements in turkey: Who voted for AKP in 2002?
Baslevent, Cem; Akarca, Ali T. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Using data drawn from a survey conducted shortly after the 2002 elections, we investigate the Justice and Development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837024
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Turkish voter response to government incompetence and corruption related to the 1999 earthquakes
Akarca, Ali T.; Tansel, Aysit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
officials who permitted them. How voters responded to these in the 2002 parliamentary elections is investigated, using cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009397166
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The Canada economic action plan as electoral tool
Chandler, Vincent - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper models the distribution of pork barrel when the electoral benefit of pork does not accrue to the party in power but to the incumbent of the district where the pork was directed. The model shows that, under certain parametres, more pork goes to core support districts. To verify this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322620
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Growth and election outcomes in a developing country
Gupta, Poonam; Panagariya, Arvind - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
developed and developing countries, the hypothesis that rapid growth helps incumbents win elections has been tested exclusively … statistically robust effect of growth on the prospects of the candidates of the state incumbent parties to win elections …. Specifically, we use the data on 422 candidates in the 2009 parliamentary elections and show that the candidates of incumbent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353830
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Election Day Registration: The Second Wave
Knack, Stephen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
percentage points in the midterm elections (1990 to 1994), and 3 percentage points in the presidential elections (1992 to 1996 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642671
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Drivers Wanted: Motor Voter and the Election of 1996
Knack, Stephen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
The first presidential election following implementation of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 was also the first in the lifetimes of most Americans in which a minority of the voting-age population bothered to vote. While that outcome must be a source of embarrassment to many reform...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642707
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Comment on Claude Berrebi and Esteban F. Klor (2008): “Are voters sensitive to terrorism? Direct evidence from the Israeli electorate”
Hlavac, Marek - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In “Are Voters Sensitive to Terrorism? Direct Evidence from the Israeli Electorate,“ Claude Berrebi and Esteban F. Klor analyze the causal effects of terrorist attacks on the political preferences of the Israeli electorate. In this comment, I discuss Berrebi and Klor's empirical approach -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685487
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Who Uses Inferior Voting Technology?
Knack, Stephen; Kropf, Martha - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
In this article, we report on the incidence of punch-card and other voting equipment by ethnicity, incomes and other variables, combining county-level demographic data from the Census Bureau with county-level data on voting equipment collected by Election Data Services, Inc. Our findings, widely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008753048
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For shame! The effect of community cooperative context on the probability of voting
Knack, Stephen; Kropf, Martha - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
The question of why some people vote in American national elections and others do not has been the focus of a vast …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008753065