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This paper establishes the presence of a substantial gender gap in the relationship between state legislature service and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to compare the differential political career progression of...
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This paper establishes the presence of a substantial gender gap in the relationship between state legislature service and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to compare the differential political career progression of...
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those politicians who get elected from a given district by a small margin, and those who lose. Using detailed information on … in the Parliament is slim). Politicians switch parties after an election to improve their ex-ante re-election probability …. These results point to forward-looking opportunistic behavior of politicians regarding their strategy to win future …
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We estimate the effect of getting elected on future income development of political candidates. We present a bootstrap approach for measuring electoral closeness, which can be used to implement a regression discontinuity design in any electoral system. We apply the method to the Finnish...
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We analyze the topical question of how the compensation of elected politicians affects the set of citizens choosing to …
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empirical tests for this phenomenon and apply them to longitudinal data on Swedish politicians. Results show that women face a …
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