Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/308437 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Citation: 
[Journal:] Public Choice [ISSN:] 1573-7101 [Volume:] 191 [Issue:] 1 [Publisher:] Springer US [Place:] New York, NY [Year:] 2022 [Pages:] 161-172
Publisher: 
Springer US, New York, NY
Abstract: 
We ask whether voters rewarded conservative politicians who voted in favor of same-sex marriage. The evidence is based on a rollcall vote in the German national parliament (Bundestag) in June 2017. That vote had a profound influence on public discourse concerning the social-political platforms of the conservative parties in Germany, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party Christian Social Union (CSU). National elections took place in September 2017. We find that, when comparing the outcomes of the 2017 and 2013 national elections, the vote share of conservative politicians who voted in favor of same-sex marriage was around 1.29% points higher (about 0.33 standard deviations of the change in the candidate's vote share) than the vote share of conservative politicians who did not vote in favor of same-sex marriage. Voters apparently were seeking policy outcomes other than economic ones when evaluating politicians' performances in office.
Subjects: 
Rewarding and punishing politicians
Conservative politicians
Rollcall votes
Same-sex marriage
Economic voting
JEL: 
D72
D78
P16
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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