Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/75592 
Year of Publication: 
1999
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 222
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Based on survey data for Switzerland, new empirical findings on direct democracy are presented. In the first part, we show that, on average, public employees receive lower financial compensation under more direct democratic institutions. However, top bureaucrats are more constrained in direct de m ocracies and have to be compensated by higher wages for that loss of power. In the second part, we demonstrate that reported subjective well-being of the population is much higher in jurisdictions with stronger direct democratic rights. This is not only the case because people value political outcomes higher but they derive utility from the politcal process itself.
Subjects: 
Direct democracy
power
compensating wage differentials
satisfaction with life
process utility
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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