Blar i Publikasjoner fra CRIStin - BI på forfatter "Geys, Benny"
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Partisanship, Blame Avoidance Behaviours and Voter Reactions to Allegations of Political Misconduct
Schönhage, Nanna Lauritz; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Politicians often engage in blame avoidance behaviours in order to evade electoral punishment following allegations of misconduct. A key question concerns the (in)effectiveness of such behaviours in mitigating voter opinions ... -
Party Cues in Elections under Multi-Level Governance: Theory and Evidence from US States
Geys, Benny; Vermeir, Jan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)In federal countries, voters’ ability to evaluate the performance of their leaders might be reduced when different levels of government shape policy outcomes. This can blur political accountability. In this article, we ... -
Political (Over)Representation of Public Sector Employees and the Double-Motive Hypothesis: Evidence from Norwegian Register Data (2007-2019)
Geys, Benny; Murdoch, Zuzana; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Countries have widely diverging regulations regarding the eligibility of public sector employees for political office, and the stringency of such regulations remains fiercely debated. Building on a demand and supply model ... -
Political Donations and the Allocation of Public Procurement Contracts
Titl, Vitezslav; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)We study whether and when firms’ donations to political parties induce favouritism in public procurement allocations. Our analysis builds on a unique, comprehensive dataset covering all public procurement contracts and all ... -
Political Donations, Public Procurement and Government Efficiency
De Witte, Kristof; Geys, Benny; Titl, Vitezslav (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Public procurement markets are worth 10–15% of global GDP. Recent empirical evidence suggests that firms’ political donations can induce important distortions in the allocation of public procurement contracts. In this ... -
Political Dynasties in Democracies: Causes, Consequences and Remaining Puzzles
Geys, Benny; Smith, Daniel Markham (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Kinship often continues to play an important role in determining the ruling class even under modern democratic elections in a wide range of countries. In recent years, academic interest in the causes and consequences of ... -
Political Dynasties, Electoral Institutions and Politicians’ Human Capital
Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This article focuses on political dynasties’ potential consequences, and particularly investigates whether and when they lead to the selection of dynastic politicians with relatively lower education levels. I exploit the ... -
Public Sector Employment and Voter Turnout
Geys, Benny; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Does working in the public rather than the private sector have a causal effect on electoral participation? Extant evidence using cross-sectional survey data remains unpersuasive due to data limitations and concerns posed ... -
Public Support for European Fiscal Integration in Times of Crisis
Daniele, Gianmarco; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)The current economic crisis has triggered fierce debates among policy-makers and the media across and within European countries about the need for a closer European Fiscal Union. Using a novel dataset derived from the ... -
Religious Heterogeneity and Fiscal Policy: Evidence from German Reunification
Freier, Ronny; Geys, Benny; Holm, Joshua (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Theoretical work based on social identity theory predicts that population diversity undermines redistributive public policies. This article tests this proposition exploiting an exogenous shock in diversity due to Germany's ... -
Representative Bureaucracy and the Role of Expertise in Politics
Trondal, Jarle; Murdoch, Zuzana; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)The vast majority of existing studies on bureaucratic representation focus on bureaucracies’ permanent and internal staff. Yet, the rising sophistication of modern democracies and the technocratization of political life ... -
Revenue scarcity and government outsourcing: Empirical evidence from Norwegian local governments
Geys, Benny; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)It is often said that ‘necessity is the mother of invention’. In this article, we assess whether this also applies to the design of public authorities' service provision. In particular, we evaluate whether revenue scarcity ... -
Sex differences in budgetary preferences among Flemish local politicians
Slegten, Caroline; Geys, Benny; Heyndels, Bruno (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Policy preferences have been shown to differ by sex within the electorate and among public officials. We explore whether—in a context of budgetary restraints—sex differences in budgetary preferences prevail among council ... -
Social Identification and Redistribution in Heterogeneous Federations: Evidence from Germany and Belgium
Holm, Joshua; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Recent evidence of increasing income heterogeneity within developed countries has reignited debates concerning the redistribution of income and wealth. In this article, we contribute to this debate by assessing the role ... -
Strategic public policy around population thresholds
De Witte, Kristof; Geys, Benny; Schönhage, Nanna Lauritz (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Political economists have long maintained that politicians respond to both (re-)election and financial incentives. This article contributes to the latter literature by analysing whether, when and how local office-holders ... -
The Impact of Women above the Political Glass Ceiling: Evidence from a Norwegian Executive Gender Quota Reform
Geys, Benny; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Women have historically been underrepresented in democratic assemblies, particularly in top positions with executive powers. Most gender quota reforms address this by mandating a more equal gender representation on election ... -
The Limits of Electoral Control: Evidence from Last-Term Politicians
Geys, Benny; Mause, Karsten (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)In modern democracies, politicians’ accountability is often linked to the disciplining mechanism of electoral control. For politicians in their final term, this mechanism is impaired. Using a novel dataset covering 910 ... -
What Do We Value Most In Schools? An Empirical Study of Stakeholders’ Preference Rankings of School Attributes
Hassan, Mamdouh; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Objectives A key question in education policy as well as individuals’ school choice involves the characteristics of schools we value most. It is thereby important to understand any heterogeneity in parents’, teachers’, ... -
Who Should Pick up the Bill? Distributing the Financial Burden of Technological Innovations in Schools
Geys, Benny; Hassan, Mamdouh (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Technological innovations in classrooms generally come with substantial financial price tags. Although the distribution of such financial costs is of critical importance to practitioners, (potential) users, and policy-makers, ... -
Will you still trust me tomorrow? The causal effect of terrorism on social trust
Geys, Benny; Qari, Salmai (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)How do people respond to terrorist events? Exploiting the timing of the 2010 wave of the annual ‘Society Opinion Media’ survey in Sweden, we study the causal effect of the Stockholm bombings of 11 December 2010 on Swedish ...