Browsing BI Open by Author "Geys, Benny"
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Abandon Ship? Party Brands and Politicians’ Responses to a Political Scandal
Daniele, Gianmarco; Galetta, Sergio; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Political scandals often trigger responses from voters and the implicated politicians. In this article, we extend the analysis to politicians who are only indirectly affected by a scandal through their affiliation with the ... -
Administrative Delegation in Budgetary Powers and Fiscal Performance
Geys, Benny; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Does delegation of the budget preparation process to top civil servants improve or worsen fiscal performance? We address this question by analyzing high-quality data on budgetary procedures and fiscal performance over a ... -
Age and Vote Choice: Is There a Conservative Shift among Older Voters?
Geys, Benny; Heggedal, Tom-Reiel; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Ageing is often believed to induce a movement towards the right of the political spectrum. Yet, empirical evidence remains inconclusive due to a dearth of longitudinal datasets covering multiple cohorts. Using eleven ... -
Are bureaucrats paid like CEOs? Performance compensation and turnover of top civil servants
Geys, Benny; Heggedal, Tom-Reiel; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Recent research explores the effect of financial and career incentives on public-sector hiring processes and subsequent performance. The reverse relation between performance and bureaucrats' compensation and turnover has ... -
Are Female Legislators Different? Exploring Sex Differences in German MPs’ Outside Interests
Geys, Benny; Mause, Karsten (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)This article examines whether sex matters with respect to a type of legislator behaviour that has thus far been neglected in the literature analysing the distinctive nature of female and male legislators: parliamentarians' ... -
Association membership and generalized trust: are connections between associations losing their value?
Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)Research linking civic engagement to citizens’ democratic values, generalized trust, cooperative norms, and so on often implicitly assumes such connections are stable over time. This article argues that, due to changes in ... -
Bargaining Complexity and the Duration of Government Formation: Evidence from Flemish Municipalities
Blockmans, Tom; Geys, Benny; Heyndels, Bruno; Mahieu, Bram (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Government formation processes have attracted a substantial amount of scholarly attention. Yet, only few scholars try to explain the duration of government formations. This article extends the latter literature by examining ... -
Better Not Look Too Nice? Employees’ Preferences Towards (Un)Likeable Managers
Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Recent research shows that, all else equal, most people prefer likeable colleagues. In this article, two experiments are employed to analyze preferences with respect to (un)likeable ssuperiors. We thereby focus on perceptions ... -
Citizen coproduction and efficient public good provision: theory and evidence from local public libraries
De Witte, Kristof; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)In both public administration and economics, efficiency is brought forward as an important criterion for evaluating administrative actions. Clearly, its value as an assessment principle depends on our ability to adequately ... -
Comparing the effect of cross-group friendship on generalized trust to its effect on prejudice: The mediating role of threat perceptions and negative affect
Achbari, Wahideh; Doosje, Bert Jan; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Intergroup relations theory posits that cross-group friendship reduces threat perceptions and negative emotions about outgroups. This has been argued to mitigate the negative effects of ethnic diversity on generalized ... -
Competition in the political arena and local government performance
Ashworth, John; Geys, Benny; Heyndels, Bruno; Wille, Fanny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Competition reduces rent extraction in private-sector firms. In this article, we empirically assess whether it similarly disciplines politicians by evaluating local-level governments’ performance in Flanders. The results ... -
David and Goliath in the Poll Booth: Group Size, Political Power and Voter Turnout
Bönisch, Peter; Geys, Benny; Michelsen, Claus (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This article analyses how the presence of a dominant group of voters within the electorate affects voter turnout. Theoretically, we argue that its absolute size affects turnout via increased free-riding incentives and ... -
(De)Centralization and voter turnout: theory and evidence from German municipalities
Michelsen, Claus; Boenisch, Peter; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)A vast academic literature illustrates that voter turnout is affected by the institutional design of elections (e.g., compulsory voting, electoral system, postal or Sunday voting). In this article, we exploit a simple ... -
Delegation, accountability and legislator moonlighting: agency problems in Germany
Geys, Benny; Mause, Karsten (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)Members of parliament in many countries are legally permitted to execute (un)paid jobs in addition to their political mandate. It is often argued that such ‘moonlighting’ activities are unproblematic for the chain of ... -
Do Voluntary Associations Show their Bright or Dark Side under Adverse Societal Shocks? Evidence from 9/11
Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)In this article, we reassess the relation between association membership and individuals’ feelings about immigrants, thereby focusing on possible shifts in this relation in the wake of negative societal shocks (i.e., the ... -
Economic and Political Foundations of Local Tax Structures: An Empirical Investigation of Flemish Municipalities’ Tax Mix
Geys, Benny; Revelli, Federico (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)Building on the revenue structure theory developed by Hettich and Winer (1984, 1988, 1999), this paper is the first to investigate the economic and political determinants of local tax mix choices. We thereby use panel data ... -
Economic Integration, Corporate Tax Incidence and Fiscal Compensation
Exbrayat, Nelly; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Higher corporate taxes are often argued to depress wages (a tax incidence effect), while higher wages may require compensation via lower corporate tax rates (a fiscal compensation effect). Yet, existing empirical evidence ... -
Evaluating Efficient Public Good Provision: Theory and Evidence from a Generalised Conditional Efficiency Model for Public Libraries
De Witte, Kristof; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)Provision of most public goods (e.g., health care, libraries, education, police, fire protection, utilities) can be characterized by a two-stage production process. In the first-stage, basic inputs (e.g., labor and capital) ... -
Expectations, Realizations, and Approval of Tablet Computers in an Educational Setting
Hassan, Mamdouh; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)The introduction of new technologies in classrooms is often thought to offer great potential for advancing learning. In this article, we investigate the relationship between such expectations and the post-implementation ... -
Explaining Voter Turnout: A Meta-Analysis of National and Subnational Elections
Cancela, Joao; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Research about voter turnout has expanded rapidly in recent years. This article takes stock of this development by extending the meta-analysis of Geys (2006) in two main ways. First, we add 102 studies published between ...