Arbeitspapier
Democracy with Group Identity
Group-based identity undermines democracy by impeding democratic change of government. A substantial literature has therefore studied how to make democracy consistent with group identity. We contribute to this literature by introducing the role of group decisiveness into voting incentives and mobilization of voters. In the elections that we study, for the same populations, accounting for income and other influences, group identity increased voter turnout on average by some 8 percentage points in local elections and decreased voter turnout by some 20 percentage points in national elections. We empirically investigate the effect of group identity on voter turnout and also evaluate whether group identity resulted in budgetary imbalance or replacement of local government because of disfunctionality. Our general contribution is to show how democracy can persist with group identity, although democracy in such instances differs from usual political competition.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 5281
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions
Intergovernmental Relations; Federalism; Secession
- Subject
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voting turnout
voter decisiveness
expressive voting
instrumental voting
local government
Arab Spring
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Hillman, Arye L.
Metsuyanim, Kfir
Potrafke, Niklas
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
- (where)
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Munich
- (when)
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2015
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Hillman, Arye L.
- Metsuyanim, Kfir
- Potrafke, Niklas
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Time of origin
- 2015
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