Outcome, Process & Power in Direct Democracy

Fachartikel 17

Fachbereich
Volkswirtschaftslehre
Fachrichtung
Volkswirtschaftspolitik
Artikel
2005
Sprache
englisch
Co Autoren
Marcel Kucher, Alois Stutzer

Beschreibung

Based on survey data for Switzerland, new empirical findings on direct democracy are presented. In the first part, we show that, on average, public employees receive lower financial compensation under more direct democratic institutions. However, top bureaucrats are more constrained in direct democracies and have to be compensated by higher wages for that loss of power. In the second part, we demonstrate that reported subjective well-being of the population is much higher in jurisdictions with stronger direct democratic rights. This is not only the case because people value political outcomes higher but they derive utility from the political process itself.

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