| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| 来源ID | DP15089
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| DP15089 Political activism when voters have a limited attention span |
| Iwan Barankay
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| 发表日期 | 2020-07-23
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| 出版年 | 2020
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | We discuss the relationship between two forms of political activism and openness. We focus on direct democratic institutions and measure political activism by the number of direct democratic ballots and voter participation in those ballots. Openness is measured by the signature requirement that has to be met in order to qualify for a ballot. We show that in models where the status quo policy that elicits the political activity is invariant to changes in openness, more openness leads to more political activism results. However, looking at the empirical evidence on the frequency of ballots in Swiss Cantons, we find no relationship between openness and the number of ballots. This can be explained by allowing voters to have a limited attention span or that the status quo policy adapts to the more acute threat. We also find empirical evidence that more openness increases voter participation, which is due to the information externalities of signature collections. |
| 主题 | Public Economics
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| 关键词 | Political openness
Direct democracy
Limited attention
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| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp15089
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| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/544045
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Iwan Barankay. DP15089 Political activism when voters have a limited attention span. 2020.
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