Arbeitspapier
Minority Positions in the German Council of Economic Experts: A Political Economic Analysis
I investigate minority votes in the German Council of Economic Experts. The dataset contains information on the voting behavior of the council members over the period 1971-2011. The results show that the best predictor of minority voting is being nominated by the trade unions: a council member nominated by the trade unions is about 70 percentage points more likely to vote against the majority opinion of the German Council of Economic Experts. This voting pattern indicates that the channel of political appointment influences voting behavior.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 4206
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- Subject
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decision making in committees
minority voting
policy preferences
German Council of Economic Experts
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Potrafke, Niklas
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
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Munich
- (when)
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2013
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Potrafke, Niklas
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Time of origin
- 2013
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