Electoral Cycles in Active Labor Market Policies [PDF]
We examine how electoral motives influence active labor market policies that promote job-creation. Such policies reduce unemployment statistics. Using German state data for the period 1985 to 2004, we show that election-motivated politicians pushed job ...
Mechtel, Mario, Potrafke, Niklas
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Do politicians gratify core supporters? Evidence from a discretionary grant program
, 2016 We investigate whether politicians award intergovernmental grants to core supporters. Our new dataset contains information on discretionary project grants from a German state government to municipalities over the period 2008-2011.
Björn, Kauder +3 more
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AfD – the alternative for whom? OSW COMMENTARY NUMBER 231 | 10.02.2017 [PDF]
, 2017 When in 2013 a group of professors of economics founded Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland – AfD) it seemed that the name of the new grouping was exaggerated.
Ciechanowicz, Artur
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Who are the Agents of Europeanization? EC Competition Policy and Germany's Public Law Banks [PDF]
competition policy; Europeanization ...
Mitchell P. Smith
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Political economy of the Agenda 2010 reforms: How Gerhard Schröder overcame the "blocked republic". ACES Cases No. 2008.3 [PDF]
, 2008 This essay will show that the Schröder-led government managed to break the political gridlock and introduce the Agenda 2010 because key institutional structures of Germany‟s political economy had lost their obstructive powers.
Freier, Maximilian
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Swiss Consensus Democracy in Transition: A Re-analysis of Lijphart's Concept of Democracy for Switzerland from 1997 to 2007 [PDF]
, 2017 The present article addresses the question of whether Switzerland can continue to be seen as an extreme case of federal consensus democracy, as illustrated by Arend Lijphart (1999).
Vatter, Adrian
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The Postwar West German Economic Transition: From Ordoliberalism to Keynesianism [PDF]
The Federal Republic of Germany has experienced a fundamental shift in economic philosophy from Ordoliberalism to Keynesianism. This paper elucidates the main tenets of both schools of thought and their eventual influences on economic policy from 1945 ...
Johannes R. B. Rittershausen
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Incentive Effects of Fiscal Rules on the Finance Minister's Behaviour: Evidence from Revenue Projections in Swiss Cantons [PDF]
, 2015 Predicting available tax revenue accurately is a key step of fiscal policy. It has recently been shown that revenue projection errors have a direct impact on fiscal deficits.
Chatagny, Florian
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Does the 4th estate deliver? Towards more direct measure of political media bias
, 2016 This contribution introduces a new direct measure of political media bias by analyzing articles and newscasts with respect to the tonality on political parties and politicians.
Dewenter, Ralf +2 more
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European Parliament elections: a final look at the national campaigns [PDF]
, 2014 European Parliament elections are being held on 22-25 May, with voting already under way in some countries across Europe. To mark the start of the election, Stuart Brown takes a look at the national campaigns, national polling, and the key domestic ...
Brown, Stuart A.
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