This paper empirically analyzes the relationship between political leaders' socioeconomic
backgrounds and public budget deficits utilizing panel data on 21 OECD countries from …

How does transparency affect voting behavior? To answer this question we exploit a switch
from a show of hands to electronic voting in the Upper House of the Swiss Parliament. The …

Votes in parliament offer one of the few sources of behavioral data to study members of
parliaments (MPs). As a consequence, an increasing number of studies rely on such data …

This paper employs information obtained from a public opinion survey to analyze why voters
differ in their demand for fiscal consolidation, ie why some voters support and others oppose …

Principal-agent problems can arise when preferences of voters are not aligned with
preferences of political representatives. Often the consequence of the political principal …

In their (2012) study Mause and Groeteke are pessimistic regarding the prospects for new
constitutional debt brakes in the European countries. They question whether the German …

Restoring America's Fiscal Constitution estimates the potential impact of new fiscal rules on
the US economy over the next two decades. The new rules would require a cyclically …

Dieser Artikel beschäftigt sich am Beispiel der halbdirekten Demokratie der Schweiz mit der
Frage, wie sehr Stimmbevölkerung und Parlament dazu neigen, sich bei Abstimmungen …

Politik ist ein Markt: der Markt für politische Dienstleistungen. Politik leidet deshalb genauso
an Politikversagen infolge mangelnder und asymmetrischer Information, wie wirtschaftliche …

Abstract In 2014 the Swiss Upper House introduced an electronic voting system, which
would make it easier to monitor the voting behavior of its legislators. In this system …