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Impact of the Pandemic on the Economic and Political Situation in Germany. Part 2 [PDF]
Научно-аналитический вестник Института Европы РАН, 2021 The COVID-19 epidemic has become a major challenge for Germany. The authors set a goal to analyze how the German government solves the problems facing the country at the national and European levels, as well as to identify how public attitudes are ...
Alexander Kokeev, Maria Khorolskaya
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Contratexto, 2017 This article is an approximation to the analysis of the transit from electoral communication to government communication, a period that is usually addressed as two differentiated dimensions, but which can be enhanced to contribute to the governments ...
Iris Jave, María Mendoza-Michilot
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Elections to the European Parliament May 26, 2019: Characteristics of the Election Campaign in Germany [PDF]
Научно-аналитический вестник Института Европы РАН, 2019 The paper analyzes the preparation of German political parties for the elections to the European Parliament in 2019. The author identifies the main patterns of electoral behavior, studies the election programs and strategies of the parties represented in
Ekaterina Timoshenkova
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Political and Party System of Germany after Elections to the Bundestag (2014-2015)
Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2015 Analyzed in the article is German political party system after the 2013 Bundestag elections. The author studies results of the 2015 elections to the European Parliament and of2014-2015 elections to German federal legislative bodies.
Ekaterina P. Timoshenkova
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Must Realists Be Pessimists About Democracy? Responding to Epistemic and Oligarchic Challenges [PDF]
, 2021 In this paper we show how a realistic normative democratic theory can work within the constraints set by the most pessimistic empirical results about voting behaviour and elite capture of the policy process.
Arlen, Gordon, Rossi, Enzo
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ELECTORAL CONTRIBUTIONS AND THE COST OF UNPOPULARITY [PDF]
, 2017 When considering electoral campaigns, candidates receiving contributions from relatively unpopular industries should be regarded less favorably by voters that have information on the sources of funding. To offset this unpopularity effect, politicians may
Bassetti, Thomas, Pavesi, Filippo
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Aspiration Versus Apprehension: Economic Opportunities and Electoral Preferences
British Journal of Political Science, 2023 AbstractRecent studies take increasingly refined views of how socioeconomic conditions influence political behaviour. We add to this literature by exploring how voters' prospective evaluations of long-term economic and social opportunities relate to electoral contestation versus the stabilization of the political-economic system underpinning the ...
Häusermann, Silja +2 more
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The determinants and electoral consequences of asymmetric preferences
European Journal of Political Economy, 2014 This paper studies two widely used models of political competition - citizen-candidate and probabilistic voting - to investigate the impact that asymmetries in single-peaked preferences have on two-party electoral competition. In a two-candidate equilibrium of the citizen-candidate model, asymmetries determine which candidate proposes a more moderate ...
Martínez Mora, Francisco de Asís +1 more
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Voter Preferences, Electoral Promises, and the Composition of Public Spending [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020 This paper proposes and empirically tests a new demand-side explanation for distortions in public spending composition. Voters prefer spending with certain and immediate benefits when they have low trust in electoral promises and high discount rates. The paper incorporates these characteristics of voter choices into a probabilistic voting model with ...
Philip Keefer +2 more
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Signaling Character in Electoral Competition [PDF]
, 2006 We study a one-dimensional Hotelling-Downs model of electoral competition with the following innovation: a fraction of candidates have “character” and are exogenously committed to a campaign platform; this is unobservable to voters.
Kartik, Navin, McAfee, R. Preston
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