Arbeitspapier
Conservative Politicians and Voting on Same-Sex Marriage
We examine whether conservative politicians are less likely to support same-sex marriage when they run for office in safe districts using new data based on a roll-call vote in the national German parliament. The results show that the margin of the majority for the incumbent in the previous election was a strong predictor for supporting same-sex marriage. When the majority increased by one percentage point, the likelihood of voting in favour of same-sex marriage decreased by around 1.3 percentage points. We conjecture that politicians are election-motivated – even when submitting roll-call votes on a matter of conscience.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 6706
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
Capitalist Systems: Political Economy
- Thema
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same-sex marriage
gay rights
safe districts
vote margins
supermajorities
roll-call votes
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Kauder, Björn
Potrafke, Niklas
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
- (wo)
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Munich
- (wann)
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2017
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Kauder, Björn
- Potrafke, Niklas
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Entstanden
- 2017
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