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| James Alt | Horacio Larreguy
January 2020, Paper: "While social pressure is widely believed to influence voters, evidence that information passed between social ties affects beliefs, policy preferences, and voting behavior is limited. We investigate such information diffusion by examining whether networks of strong and mostly weak social ties relay information about unemployment shocks in Denmark. We link surveys with rich population-level administrative data that logs…
| James Alt | Horacio Larreguy
Contagious Political Concerns: How Unemployment Information Passed Between Weak Ties Influences Danish Voters. James Alt, Horacio Larreguy, May 2019, Paper, "While social pressure between close network ties is widely believed to influence voters, evidence that information passed between weak ties affects beliefs, policy preferences, and behavior is limited. We investigate such information diffusion by examining whether weak ties relay…
| James Alt
Twenty years of transparency research. James Alt, October 26, 2018, Paper, "A keynote speech given at the conference “Public Sector Economics 2018 – Fiscal openness: transparency, participation and accountability in fiscal policies” organized by the Institute of Public Finance, International Budget Partnership and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Zagreb on October 26, 2018."…
| Torben Iversen | James Alt
Inequality, Labor Market Segmentation, and Preferences for Redistribution. James Alt, Torben Iversen, August 11, 2014, Paper, "We formalize and examine two overlapping models that show how rising inequality combined with ethnic and racial heterogeneity can explain why many advanced industrial countries have experienced a drop in support for redistribution as inequality has risen. One model, based on altruism and homophily, focuses on the effect…
| James Alt
The Political Economy of Tax Policy, James E. Alt, 2009, Book Chapter, This chapter reviews major changes in British tax-setting institutions in the past thirty years and highlights four key points about the politics of tax policy, which are summarized below. The chapter also makes policy recommendations, such as for improving scrutiny and parliamentary accountability; these are also summarized below. …
| James Alt
Inequality and Corruption: Evidence from US States, James E. Alt, August 25, 2008, Paper. "High-quality data on state-level inequality and incomes, panel data on corruption convictions, and careful attention to the consequences of including or excluding fixed effects in the panel specification allow us to estimate the impact of income considerations on the decision to undertake corrupt acts. Following efficiency wage arguments, for a given…
| James Alt
Political and Judicial Checks on Corruption: Evidence from American State Governments. James E. Alt, March 2008, Paper. "This paper investigates the effects of checks and balances on corruption. Within a presidential system, effective separation of powers is achieved under a divided government, with the executive and legislative branches being controlled by different political parties. When government is unified, no effective separation exists…
| James Alt
Context-Conditional Political Business Cycles. James E. Alt, 2007, Book Chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics. "Offers an innovative structure that responds to the very latest scholarship in comparative politics, with sections covering: theory and methodology, states and the state formation, political consent, political regimes and transitions, political instability, political conflict, mass political mobilization, processing…