Voting for direct democratic participation: evidence from an initiative election

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• 作者：Felix Arnold ; Ronny Freier ; Magdalena Pallauf…
• 刊名：International Tax and Public Finance
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：August 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：23
• 期：4
• 页码：716-740
• 全文大小：971 KB
• 刊物类别：Business and Economics
• 刊物主题：Economics
  Public Finance and Economics
  Business Taxation
  Finance and Banking
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-6970
• 卷排序：23

文摘

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 election in 1995. This institutional setting allows us to observe revealed preferences for direct democracy and to identify factors which explain these preferences. Empirical evidence suggests that support for direct democracy is related to dissatisfaction with representative democracy in general rather than with an elected governing party.KeywordsDirect democracyVotingInitiativeParties