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ABSTRACT This article examines the effect of electoral system reform on legislative speech‐making by Members of Parliament (MPs), focusing on the case of Denmark's 1918 shift from single‐member districts (SMD) to proportional representation (PR) in elections to the lower chamber.
Martin Ejnar Hansen
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El presente artículo trata sobre la posibilidad de extender al Congreso de los Diputados y al Senado las audiencias a personas y organizaciones representativas de intereses sociales en el curso del procedimiento legislativo, que son comunes en la ...
Manuel Carrasco Durán
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The politicians’ wage gap: insights from German members of parliament [PDF]
Using a unique dataset of German members of parliament (MPs) this paper analyzes the politicians’ wage gap (PWG). After controlling for observable characteristics as well as accounting for election probabilities and campaigning costs, we find a positive ...
Peichl, Andreas +2 more
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The rise of Germany’s AfD: from ordoliberalism to new right nationalism and into the Bundestag? [PDF]
Opinion polls suggest that as many as six independent parties could cross the electoral threshold and enter the Bundestag in Germany’s federal elections in September.
Göpffarth, Julian
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ABSTRACT We use Natural Language Processing methods to analyze the part of the debates in the Bundestag, the German parliament, about the German military (Bundeswehr). Estimated local projections show that an increase in Bundeswehr‐related fiscal sentiment of the government causes an increase in actual military spending and an expansion of economic ...
Albina Latifi +3 more
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The new draft proposal for a directive on takeovers : the German perspective [PDF]
The previous proposal for a company law directive on takeovers in 1990 was rejected in Germany almost unanimously for several different reasons. The new "slimmed down" draft proposal, in the light of the subsidiarity principle, takes the different ...
Baums, Theodor
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Politicians' outside earnings and electoral competition [PDF]
This paper deals with the impact of electoral competition on politicians´ outside earnings. We propose a simple theoretical model with politicians facing a tradeoff between allocating their time to political effort or to an alternative use generating ...
Becker, Johannes +2 more
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Roll-Call Votes in the German Bundestag: A New Dataset, 1949–2013
This letter introduces a comprehensive data collection on roll-call votes (RCVs) in the German Bundestag between 1949 and 2013. RCVs are one of the most important data sources on parliamentary behavior.
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In its statement of March 17, 2016 Leibnitz Association’s senate recommends to stop the co-funding of ZB MED – Leibniz Information Centre for Life Sciences.
Bauer, Bruno
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