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It's the occupation, stupid! Explaining candidates' success in low-information elections
Mechtel, Mario - In: European Journal of Political Economy 33 (2014) C, pp. 53-70
) an occupation's public reputation, (b) the extent to which individuals carrying out certain occupations are known within … the reputation/prestige of certain jobs, we find a strong correlation between an occupation's reputation and the electoral … success of a candidate carrying out this occupation. Therefore, voters appear to use occupational reputation as a cue in low …
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The Electric Telegraph, News Coverage and Political Participation
Wang, Tianyi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Using newly digitized data on the growth of the telegraph network in America during 1840-1852, the paper studies the impacts of the electric telegraph on national elections. I use proximity to daily newspapers with telegraphic connections to Washington to generate plausibly exogenous variation...
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Information Aggregation in Stratified Societies
Agranov, Marina; Eilat, Ran; Sonin, Konstantin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We analyze a model of political competition in which the elite forms endogenously to aggregate information and advise the uninformed median voter which candidate to choose. The median voter knows whether or not the endorsed candidate is biased toward the elites, but might still prefer the biased...
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Civil Rights Protests and Election Outcomes : Exploring the Effects of the Poor People's Campaign
Anderson, D. Mark; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Karbownik, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
estimate the effects of these protests on congressional election outcomes. In the South, we find that PPC protests led to …
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Electoral competition, political promises and the "responsible party government" hypothesis
Le Maux, Benoît - In: Power and Responsibility : Interdisciplinary …, (pp. 305-329). 2023
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Coordination and Incumbency Advantage in Multi-Party Systems - Evidence from French Elections
Dano, Kevin; Ferlenga, Francesco; Galasso, Vincenzo; Le … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
practice, incumbency advantage and coordination issues may lead to the (re)election of bad politicians. We ask whether these … elections, we find that winning an election increases candidates' chances to win the next election by 25.1 percentage points … conclude that party coordination and voters rallying candidates who won or gained visibility in an election both contribute to …
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Comparative politics and quasi-rational markets
McMenamin, Iain; Breen, Michael; Muñoz-Portillo, Juan - In: New political economy 21 (2016) 6, pp. 587-605
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Informative cheap talk in elections
Kartik, Navin; Van Weelden, Richard - In: The review of economic studies : RES 86 (2019) 2, pp. 755-784
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Deceptive redistribution
Alder, Simeon D.; Ordoñez, Guillermo - In: Review of economic dynamics 22 (2016), pp. 223-239
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The power of shareholder votes : Evidence from uncontested director elections
Aggarwal, Reena; Dahiya, Sandeep; Prabhala, Nagpurnanand R. - In: Journal of financial economics 133 (2019) 1, pp. 134-153
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