TY - JOUR
T1 - Does the winner take it all? Federal policies and political extremism
AU - Daniele, Gianmarco
AU - Piolatto, Amedeo
AU - Sas, Willem
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 The Author(s)
PY - 2024/1
Y1 - 2024/1
N2 - Whether citizens like or dislike federal policies often depends on regional differences. Because of geography, (economic) history or other path-dependent factors, certain regions are perceived to get more out of the union than others. We show that citizens, therefore, have a strategic incentive to elect Federal delegates that are more extreme than the representative voter. The intensity of such strategic delegation is U-shaped in expected benefits. The predictions of our model hence rationalise the voting differences we observe in the data between national and EU elections.
AB - Whether citizens like or dislike federal policies often depends on regional differences. Because of geography, (economic) history or other path-dependent factors, certain regions are perceived to get more out of the union than others. We show that citizens, therefore, have a strategic incentive to elect Federal delegates that are more extreme than the representative voter. The intensity of such strategic delegation is U-shaped in expected benefits. The predictions of our model hence rationalise the voting differences we observe in the data between national and EU elections.
KW - European elections
KW - Euroscepticism
KW - Federalism
KW - Political extremism
KW - Populism
KW - Strategic delegation
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U2 - 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.103986
DO - 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.103986
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85183987305
SN - 0166-0462
VL - 105
JO - Regional science and urban economics
JF - Regional science and urban economics
M1 - 103986
ER -
