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Abandon Ship? Party Brands and Politicians' Responses to a Political Scandal 0 0 0 99 2 5 30 260
Abandon ship? Party brands and politicians’responses to a political scandal 0 0 0 18 0 0 11 42
Association membership and generalised trust: Are connections between associations losing their value? 0 0 0 38 1 3 6 87
Borders as boundaries to fiscal policy interactions? An empirical analysis of politicians' opinions on rivals in the competition for firms 0 0 0 14 0 0 10 109
Citizen coproduction and efficient public good provision: Theory and evidence from local public libraries 0 0 0 31 0 1 20 178
Civic engagement and corruption in 20 European democracies 0 0 0 88 0 3 13 163
David and Goliath in the Poll Booth: Group Size, Voting Power and Voter Turnout 0 0 0 32 1 3 7 94
Decentralization, Competition and the local tax mix: evidence from Flanders 0 0 0 21 0 4 16 217
Decentralization, competition and the local tax mix: Evidence from Flanders 0 0 0 146 0 2 13 400
Delegation, accountability & legislator moonlighting: Agency problems in Germany 0 0 0 12 0 3 8 84
Disentangling the effects of political fragmentation on voter turnout: the Flemish municipal elections 0 0 0 16 0 3 13 139
Economic Integration, Corporate Tax Incidence and Fiscal Compensation 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 42
Economic Integration, Corporate Tax Incidence and Fiscal Compensation 0 0 0 30 0 2 11 81
Economic Integration, Corporate Tax Incidence and Fiscal Compensation 0 0 0 40 0 6 11 63
Election cycles in MPs' outside interests? The UK House of Commons, 2005-2010 0 0 0 13 0 6 14 72
Evaluating efficient public good provision: Theory and evidence from a generalised conditional efficiency model for public libraries 0 0 0 52 0 4 12 256
Exploring sources of local government technical inefficiency: evidence from Flemish municipalities 0 0 1 36 0 2 11 190
Exposing politicians’ ties to criminal organizations: the effects of local government dissolutions on electoral outcomes in southern Italian municipalities 0 0 1 46 1 4 20 89
Federalism and optimal allocation across levels of governance 0 0 0 47 0 2 16 204
Government weakness and electoral cycles in local public debt: evidence from Flemish municipalities 0 0 0 20 0 3 10 108
Hoe het loon van een burgemeester de bevolkingsgroei en bouwvergunningen van een gemeente bepalen 0 0 0 2 0 3 8 32
How to make head or tail of bridging and bonding? Adressing the methodological ambiguity 0 0 0 6 0 3 5 85
Information, Perceptions, and Electoral Behaviour of Young Voters: A Randomised Controlled Experiment 0 0 0 92 1 4 25 367
Instrumental calculation, cognitive role-playing, or both? Self-perceptions of Seconded National Experts in the European Commission 0 0 0 7 0 1 10 86
Local Governments in the Wake of Demographic Change: Efficiency and Economies of Scale in German Municipalities 0 0 0 134 3 6 17 456
Local governments in the wake of demographic change: evidence from German municipalities 0 0 0 21 0 3 8 119
Looking across borders: a test of spatial policy interdependence using local government efficiency ratings 0 0 0 38 0 2 15 202
Measuring local government technical (in)efficiency: An application and comparison of FDH, DEA and econometric approaches 0 0 0 104 1 3 11 369
Measuring the bridging nature of voluntary organizations: a note on the importance of association size 0 0 0 7 0 2 5 73
Moonlighting politicians: A survey and research agenda 0 1 1 68 1 6 23 299
Partial Fiscal Decentralization and Sub-National Government Fiscal Discipline: Empirical Evidence from OECD Countries 0 0 1 88 0 6 23 251
Party cues and yardstick voting 0 0 0 17 2 4 11 129
Party cues in elections under multilevel governance: Theory and evidence from US states 0 0 0 35 1 7 30 154
Patriotism and Taxation 1 1 3 32 1 2 16 73
Patriotism, Taxation and International Mobility 0 0 0 68 0 3 14 225
Patriotism, Taxation and International Mobility 0 0 0 65 0 1 8 270
Patriotism, taxation and international mobility 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 54
Patriotism, taxation and international mobility 0 0 1 16 0 1 4 140
Political donations, public procurement and government efficiency 0 0 0 40 2 6 17 101
Political fragmentation and projected tax revenues: evidence from Flemish municipalities 0 0 0 24 1 6 8 157
Politicians' opinions on rivals in the competition for firms: An empirical analysis of reference points near a border 0 0 0 23 0 3 14 89
Public expenditures, educational outcomes and grade inflation: Theory and evidence from a policy intervention in the Netherlands 0 0 0 40 0 3 8 173
Public support for institutionalised solidarity: Europeans' reaction to the establishment of eurobonds 0 0 0 70 0 6 29 231
Religious Heterogeneity and Fiscal Policy: Evidence from German Reunification 0 0 0 58 0 2 23 155
Strategic Housing Policy, Migration and Sorting around Population Thresholds 0 0 0 18 1 3 5 76
Success and failure in electoral competition: Selective issue emphasis under incomplete issue ownership 0 0 0 19 0 1 8 100
Taxation and presidential approval: separate effects from tax burden and tax structure turbulence 0 0 0 12 0 3 6 143
The impact of central places on spatial spending patterns: evidence from Flemish local government cultural expenditures 0 0 0 31 0 5 21 196
The political cost of taxation: new evidence from German popularity ratings 0 0 0 18 2 6 16 130
The political economy of efficient public good provision: evidence from Flemish libraries using a generalised conditional efficiency framework 0 0 0 75 0 4 9 289
Towards an empirical characterization of bridging and bonding social capital 0 1 2 27 0 6 12 128
Trade Integration and Business Tax Differentials: Theory and Evidence from OECD Countries 0 0 0 37 0 2 11 126
Trade Integration and Business Tax Differentials: Theory and Evidence from OECD Countries 0 0 0 40 0 1 5 125
Trade Integration and Business Tax Differentials: Theory and Evidence from OECD Countries 0 0 0 0 0 4 8 31
Trade Integration and Corporate Income Tax Differentials: Evidence from OECD Countries 0 0 0 0 0 4 12 36
Trade integration and business tax differentials: Evidence from OECD countries 0 0 0 13 1 3 14 125
Voter Involvement, Fiscal Autonomy and Public Sector Efficiency: Evidence from German Municipalities 0 0 0 92 2 5 12 368
Voter involvement, fiscal autonomy and public sector efficiency: evidence from German municipalities 0 0 1 18 1 7 20 158
War casualties and US presidential popularity: A comparison of the Korean, Vietnam and Iraq war 0 0 0 14 1 15 44 162
Wars, presidents and popularity: The political cost(s) of war re-examined 0 0 0 17 1 1 12 118
Total Working Papers 1 3 11 2,285 27 210 808 9,479


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(De)Centralization and voter turnout: theory and evidence from German municipalities 0 1 1 22 0 3 12 101
A post‐politics earnings penalty? Evidence from politicians' lifetime income trajectories (1970–2019) 0 0 0 0 2 3 22 24
Abandon ship? Party brands and politicians' responses to a political scandal 0 0 1 13 1 6 20 106
Administrative Delegation of Budgetary Powers and Fiscal Performance 0 0 2 6 0 3 11 24
Are bureaucrats paid like CEOs? Performance compensation and turnover of top civil servants 0 0 0 9 1 2 16 88
BORDERS AS BOUNDARIES TO FISCAL POLICY INTERACTIONS? AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF POLITICIANS’ OPINIONS ON RIVALS IN THE COMPETITION FOR FIRMS 0 0 0 4 0 8 23 51
Ballot Layout Effects in the 1995 Elections of the Brussels' Government 0 0 0 19 0 2 5 190
Bargaining complexity and the duration of government formation: evidence from Flemish municipalities 0 0 0 4 0 2 8 41
Children as Public Goods: At What Cost? 0 0 0 0 0 2 10 12
Citizen coproduction and efficient public good provision: Theory and evidence from local public libraries 0 0 0 28 0 0 6 123
Community Heterogeneity: A Burden for the Creation of Social Capital?* 0 0 1 18 0 2 15 100
Comparing the effect of cross-group friendship on generalized trust to its effect on prejudice: The mediating role of threat perceptions and negative affect 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 15
Competition in the political arena and local government performance 0 1 2 31 0 3 13 119
DISENTANGLING THE EFFECTS OF POLITICAL FRAGMENTATION ON VOTER TURNOUT: THE FLEMISH MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS 0 0 0 35 1 3 8 379
David and Goliath in the poll booth: group size, political power and voter turnout 0 0 0 1 0 1 5 9
Determinants of tax innovation: The case of environmental taxes in Flemish municipalities 0 0 0 56 3 6 10 235
Economic Integration, Corporate Tax Incidence and Fiscal Compensation 0 0 0 6 0 6 24 68
Economic and Political Foundations of Local Tax Structures: An Empirical Investigation of the Tax Mix of Flemish Municipalities 1 1 2 78 1 4 16 265
Election Cycles in MPs' Outside Interests? The UK House of Commons, 2005–2010 0 0 0 3 1 3 5 45
Evaluating efficient public good provision: Theory and evidence from a generalised conditional efficiency model for public libraries 0 0 2 101 3 9 20 562
Everyone likes a winner: An empirical test of the effect of electoral closeness on turnout in a context of expressive voting 0 0 0 92 0 2 9 234
Family Ties and Socio-Economic Outcomes in High vs Low Income Countries 0 0 1 2 0 8 26 43
Fiscal Fairness as a Political Argument 0 0 0 7 0 6 14 49
Government Weakness and Local Public Debt Development in Flemish Municipalities 0 2 2 167 2 6 23 1,244
How can the stigma of public transport as the ‘poor man's vehicle’ be overcome to enhance sustainability and climate change mitigation? 0 0 0 41 0 2 12 146
Interpersonal trust and welfare state support 0 0 1 40 0 3 19 212
I’m a Survivor: Political Dynamics in Bureaucratic Elites’ Partisan Identification 0 0 1 1 0 0 22 22
Local Governments in the Wake of Demographic Change: Evidence from German Municipalities 0 0 0 46 0 4 8 148
Looking across borders: A test of spatial policy interdependence using local government efficiency ratings 0 0 0 64 1 3 13 245
Looks Good, You're Hired? Evidence from Extra-Parliamentary Activities of German Parliamentarians 0 0 0 1 0 1 7 53
Looks Good, You’re Hired? Evidence from Extra-Parliamentary Activities of German Parliamentarians 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 26
Organised Crime, Institutions and Political Quality: Empirical Evidence from Italian Municipalities 2 2 5 43 4 6 37 124
PARTY CUES IN ELECTIONS UNDER MULTILEVEL GOVERNANCE: THEORY AND EVIDENCE FROM US STATES 0 0 0 10 1 4 23 93
Partial fiscal decentralization and sub-national government fiscal discipline: empirical evidence from OECD countries 0 0 1 32 0 1 13 123
Party cues and yardstick voting 0 0 1 27 1 2 10 165
Party leaders and voter responses to political terrorism 0 0 0 1 1 4 14 43
Patriotism, taxation and international mobility 0 0 0 20 0 4 9 182
Political Dynasties in Democracies: Causes, Consequences and Remaining Puzzles 0 2 4 118 3 16 56 647
Political Dynasties, Electoral Institutions and Politicians’ Human Capital 0 0 1 22 0 4 22 82
Political donations and the allocation of public procurement contracts 0 1 2 43 2 12 25 226
Political donations, public procurement and government efficiency 0 0 0 3 1 7 23 53
Political fragmentation and projected tax revenues: evidence from Flemish municipalities 0 0 0 49 0 5 13 287
Popular Support for Environmental Protection: A Life-Cycle Perspective 0 0 0 3 0 1 5 15
Pro-social preferences and the paradox of voting 0 0 0 0 0 3 12 12
Public Sector Employment and Voter Turnout 0 0 0 4 0 3 5 21
Public expenditures, educational outcomes and grade inflation: Theory and evidence from a policy intervention in the Netherlands 0 0 0 26 0 1 8 104
Religious heterogeneity and fiscal policy: Evidence from German reunification 0 0 0 13 0 3 18 107
Representative Bureaucracy and the Role of Expertise in Politics 0 0 0 0 0 1 11 11
Representative bureaucracy and seconded national government officials in the European Commission 0 0 1 4 0 2 14 23
Staff reallocations and employee attitudes towards organizational aims: evidence using longitudinal data from the European Commission 0 0 0 3 0 3 12 18
Strategic public policy around population thresholds 0 0 0 3 1 3 12 61
Taxation and presidential approval: separate effects from tax burden and tax structure turbulence? 0 0 0 16 0 2 8 134
The Impact of the Economic Costs of Conflict on Individuals' Political Attitudes 0 0 0 10 0 3 14 86
The impact of ‘central places’ on spatial spending patterns: evidence from Flemish local government cultural expenditures 0 1 1 61 2 7 14 264
Trade integration and corporate income tax differentials 0 0 0 18 1 5 13 161
Transitory Income Windfalls and Charitable Giving: Evidence from Norwegian Register Data, 1993-2021 0 0 1 1 0 2 12 12
Value for money? German local government efficiency in a comparative perspective 0 0 1 67 0 3 19 235
Value for money? German local government efficiency in a comparative perspective 0 0 1 1 0 2 9 19
Voter involvement, fiscal autonomy and public sector efficiency: Evidence from German municipalities 0 0 1 81 0 4 18 277
What Do We Value Most in Schools? A Study of Preference Rankings of School Attributes 0 0 0 1 0 2 23 31
Will you still trust me tomorrow? The causal effect of terrorism on social trust 0 0 1 49 0 5 25 198
‘Rational’ Theories of Voter Turnout: A Review 0 0 0 86 1 13 29 244
Total Journal Articles 3 11 37 1,710 34 236 941 9,037
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Federalism and optimal allocation across levels of governance 0 0 0 0 1 5 19 72
Politicians’ Extra-Parliamentary Activities and Lobbying 0 0 0 0 2 3 12 26
Total Chapters 0 0 0 0 3 8 31 98


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