Time preferences as partisan politics

What do party manifestos show in twenty-two OECD countries

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ID6145533
AuthorsFeler Bose (0000-0002-2771-8413, Indiana University, corresponding author), Zachary Van Duyn (Anderson University - Indiana)
Year2020
Volume23
Issue2
Pages115-130
Publication date2020-11-26
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Politics and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2374-5126 • E-ISSN: 2374-5118
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/23745118.2020.1847571
OpenAlexW3107680450
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited24

This study examines the correlation between economic freedom and sexual freedom in the twenty-two OECD nations included in the 2020 Comparative Welfare States Dataset (Brady and Stephens, 2020 Brady, D., & Stephens, E. H. J. D. (2020). Comparative Welfare States Data Set. University of North Carolina and WZB Berlin Social Science Center. [Google Scholar]. Comparative welfare states data set. University of North Carolina and WZB Berlin Social Science Center). Our research builds on prior work by Unwin (1934 Unwin, J. D. (1934). Sex and culture. Oxford University Press. [Google Scholar]. Sex and culture. Oxford University Press, 1935. Sexual regulations and cultural behaviour. Oxford University Press, 1940. HOPOUSIA or the sexual and economic foundations of a new society. Oskar Piest) and Bose (2013). License to Sin: The Politics and Opportunity Cost of Sexual Freedom. SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2039060 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2039060. who suggest that economic freedom and sexual freedom are negatively related. We develop an economic and sexual freedom score from the Manifesto Project (Volkens et al., 2020 Volkens, A., Burst, T., Krause, W., Lehmann, P., Matthieß, T., Merz, N., Regel, S., Weßels, B., & Zehnter, L. (2020). The manifesto data collection. In M. P. (MRG/CMP/MARPOR) (Ed.), Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB). [Google Scholar]. The manifesto data collection. In M. P. (MRG/CMP/MARPOR) (Ed.), Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB)) and take the difference between the two and track the difference since primarily the end of World War II. Our hypothesis is that right parties will emphasize more economic freedom in their party platforms than sexual freedom, whereas left parties will have more to say about sexual freedom in their party platforms than economic freedom. The difference is because the parties are attracting different types of voters based on their time preferences

Manifesto · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Welfare · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Fiscal Policies and Political Economy · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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