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Søren Serritzlew
Researcher at Aarhus University
Publications - 58
Citations - 1609
Søren Serritzlew is an academic researcher from Aarhus University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Local government. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 56 publications receiving 1381 citations.
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Jurisdiction Size and Local Democracy: Evidence on Internal Political Efficacy from Large-scale Municipal Reform
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify a quasiexperiment, a large-scale municipal reform in Denmark, which allows them to estimate a causal effect of jurisdiction size on internal political efficacy.
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Motivated Reasoning and Political Parties: Evidence for Increased Processing in the Face of Party Cues
Michael Bang Petersen,Martin Skov,Martin Skov,Søren Serritzlew,Thomas Z. Ramsøy,Thomas Z. Ramsøy +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors derive two possible hypotheses: (1) party cues activate heuristic processing aimed at minimizing the processing effort during opinion formation, and (2) group motivational processes that compel citizens to support the position of their party.
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Interpreting Performance Information: Motivated Reasoning or Unbiased Comprehension
TL;DR: The authors show that even objective, clear, and unambiguous performance information is subject to biased interpretation depending on whether the information is consistent with the prior beliefs held by those who receive the information.
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Jurisdiction Size and Local Government Policy Expenditure: Assessing the Effect of Municipal Amalgamation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the theoretical arguments invoked to justify municipal mergers and find that there is no compelling reason to expect them to yield net gains, since potential savings in administrative costs are likely to be offset by opposite effects for other domains.
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Size, Democracy, and the Economic Costs of Running the Political System
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the argument on economies of scale in the economic costs of running political systems and show that scale effects, measured as administrative costs per inhabitant, are considerable.