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