Arbeitspapier
Do politicians' preferences matter for voters' voting decisions?
Using unique survey data that allows us to observe both voters' and politicians' preferences for local public spending as well as voting decisions, this paper tests if voters typically support parties in which the politicians' preferences are closest to their own. Doing so would be rational for the voters to do if politicians' preferences matter for policy outcomes, as is the case in e.g. the citizen-candidate model. It is found that this is indeed the case. This finding is in line with theoretical models such as the citizen-candidate model arguing that politicians cannot credibly commit to election platforms that differ from their true policy preferences.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Working Paper ; No. 2011:10
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
State and Local Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
Capitalist Systems: Political Economy
- Thema
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elections
voting
preferences for public services
Kommunale Ausgaben
Wahlverhalten
Offenbarte Präferenzen
Politiker
Schweden
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Dahlberg, Matz
Mörk, Eva
Sorribas-Navarro, Pilar
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Uppsala University, Department of Economics
- (wo)
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Uppsala
- (wann)
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2011
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-154645
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Dahlberg, Matz
- Mörk, Eva
- Sorribas-Navarro, Pilar
- Uppsala University, Department of Economics
Entstanden
- 2011
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