Partisan Campaigning and Initiative Petition Signing in Direct Democracies

Summary This paper investigates whether popular initiatives signed by a larger share of the population have higher acceptance rates at the subsequent vote. The main analysis is based on all Swiss federal initiatives voted between 1978 and 2000 with a panel of aggregate voting data at cantonal level....

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Main Author: Katharina E. Hofer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-07-01
Series:Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF03399509