Are Voters Better Informed When They Have a Larger Say in Politics? – Evidence for the European Union and Switzerland

By Matthias Benz, Alois Stutzer. 2002

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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Citations in the corpus

• The economic effects of direct democracy—a first global assessment (2009, background): “Benz and Stutzer (2004) have also provided evidence in favor of the conjecture that citizens in states with direct-democratic institutions are better informed than citizens in purely representative states.”