Do politicians with a military background vote differently on military affairs? We investigate
the informative institutional setting of the Swiss conscription army. Politicians who served in …

Electoral systems determine the role that representatives' party affiliations play in political
representation. According to conventional expectations, party affiliation drives the behavior …

While most observers feel that interest groups influence parliamentary decisions, direct
evidence on this topic is scarce. Matching parliamentary votes with referendum results helps …

How do politicians with past military service decide on societal issues? We explore the
voting behavior of parliamentarians in the informative institutional setting of Switzerland with …

We combine roll call votes and referendum decisions on identically worded legislative
proposals to identify the effect of electoral rules on the way Swiss Members of Parliament …

Politicians have multiple principals. We investigate the weights that politicians put on the
revealed preferences of their constituents, special interest groups and party when deciding …

We study a constitutional change in the German State of Bavaria where citizens, not
politicians, granted themselves more say in politics at the local level through a state initiative …

Objectives This study quantifies the quality of the median voter model (MVM) and analyzes
whether personal characteristics explain legislative shirking. Methods We employ a natural …

Politics is a social endeavour and highly visible to the consumer (in this case, the citizen). It
is therefore not surprising that a potential beauty premium has been explored in politics …

Was macht das Phänomen „Populismus “aus, und wie hat es sich in den letzten
Jahrzehnten entwickelt? Edward Weber geht diesen Fragen nach, basierend auf …