Browsing by Author "Matakos, Konstantinos"
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Citizens or Clients? Evidence on Opportunistic Voting from a Natural Experiment in Greece
Matakos, Konstantinos; Xefteris, Dimitrios (2016)
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Divide and rule: redistribution in a model with differentiated candidates
Matakos, Konstantinos; Xefteris, Dimitrios (2017)We study an electoral competition model in which each voter is characterized by income level and non-economic characteristics, and where two vote share maximizing candidates, with fixed non-economic characteristics ...
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Does Exposure to the Refugee Crisis Make Natives More Hostile?
Hangartner, Dominik; Dinas, Elias; Marbach, Moritz; Matakos, Konstantinos; Xefteris, Dimitrios (2019)Although Europe has experienced unprecedented numbers of refugee arrivals in recent years, there exists almost no causal evidence regarding the impact of the refugee crisis on natives’ attitudes, policy preferences, and ...
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Economic insecurity and political stability: a case for growth-targeting systemic vote
Matakos, Konstantinos; Xefteris, Dimitrios (2020)Abstract. In this paper, we focus on the years before the Great Recession (1960–2007) and, after addressing possible issues of endogeneity, we study the effect
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An economic model of strategic electoral rule choice under uncertainty
Xefteris, Dimitrios; Matakos, Konstantinos (2011)We study electoral rule choice in a multi-party model where parties are o¢ ce-motivated and uncertainty over the electoral outcome is present. We show that when all dominant parties (parties with positive probability of ...
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Election note: The September 20, 2015 parliamentary election in Greece
Matakos, Konstantinos; Xefteris, Dimitrios (2016)
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Electoral Rule Disproportionality and Platform Polarization
Matakos, Konstantinos; Troumpounis, Orestis; Xefteris, Dimitrios (2016)Despite common perception, existing theoretical literature lacks a complete formal argument regarding the relationship between the electoral rule disproportionality and platform polarization. In this article, we build a ...
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Electoral rules, strategic entry and polarization
Bol, Damien; Matakos, Konstantinos; Troumpounis, Orestis; Xefteris, Dimitrios (2019)How does electoral rule disproportionality affect the structure of the party system (i.e. the number and the policy platforms of the competing parties)? By studying a model where both party entry and platform choice are ...
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Electoral Spillovers in an Intertwined World: Brexit Effects on the 2016 Spanish Vote
Delis, Agelos; Matakos, Konstantinos; Xefteris, Dimitrios (2020)he Brexit vote took place three days before the June 26, 2016, Spain’s parliamentary elections, in which anti-systemic parties performed worse compared to the previous elections (December 2015) despite the optimistic ...
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Strategic electoral rule choice under uncertainty
Matakos, Konstantinos; Xefteris, Dimitrios (2015)We study electoral rule choice in a multi-party model with office-motivated parties and electoral outcome uncertainty. We show that when all dominant parties (parties with positive probability of winning the election) have ...
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Turnout and Polarization Under Alternative Electoral Systems
Matakos, Konstantinos; Troumpounis, Orestis; Xefteris, Dimitrios (2015)This chapter presents a formal model of electoral competition where parties’ platforms are endogenously chosen and depend on the degree of the electoral rule disproportionality. We first show that proportional electoral ...
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Turnout and Polarization Under Alternative Electoral Systems
Matakos, Konstantinos; Troumpounis, Orestis; Xefteris, Dimitrios (2015)This chapter presents a formal model of electoral competition where parties’ platforms are endogenously chosen and depend on the degree of the electoral rule disproportionality. We first show that proportional electoral ...
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Waking Up the Golden Dawn: Does Exposure to the Refugee Crisis Increase Support for Extreme-Right Parties?
Dinas, Elias; Matakos, Konstantinos; Xefteris, Dimitrios; Hangartner, Dominik (2019)Does exposure to the refugee crisis fuel support for extreme-right parties? Despite heated debates about the political repercussions of the refugee crisis in Europe, there exists very little—and sometimes conflicting—evidence ...