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Union Success in Representation Elections : Why Does Unit Size Matter?
Farber, Henry S. - 1999
I establish four facts regarding the pattern of NLRB supervised representation election activity over the past 45 years …: 1) the quantity of election activity has fallen sharply and discontinuously since the mid-70's after increasing between … forty years. I develop a simple optimizing model of the union decision to hold a representation election that can account …
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Electoral Turnovers
Marx, Benjamin M.; Pons, Vincent; Rollet, Vincent - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In most national elections, voters face a key choice between continuity and change. Electoral turnovers occur when the incumbent candidate or party fails to win reelection. To understand how turnovers affect national outcomes, we study the universe of presidential and parliamentary elections...
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Independent Regulators and Financial Stability : Evidence from Gubernatorial Campaigns and a Progressive Era Policy Experiment
Del Angel, Marco; Richardson, Gary - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
supervision. After this change, failure rates declined during gubernatorial election campaigns for banks under gubernatorial …
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Representation Failure
Iaryczower, Matias; Montero, Sergio; Kim, Galileu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Democratic representation is constrained by the alternatives available to voters. In this paper, we develop a methodology to gauge the extent to which the "supply side" of politics hinders voter welfare. Using rich data on thousands of candidates in three Brazilian legislative elections, we...
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Career Concerns and the Dynamics of Electoral Accountability
Iaryczower, Matiás; Meirowitz, Adam; Lopez-Moctezuma, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Quantifying the value that legislators give to reelection relative to policy is crucial to understanding electoral accountability. We estimate the preferences for office and policy of members of the US Senate, using a structural approach that exploits variation in polls, position-taking and...
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The Political Economy of Anti-Bribery Enforcement
Cohen, Lauren; Li, Bo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
's jurisdiction increases significantly pre-election, spiking 23%, with zero equivalent move for equivalently global (but domestic …
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Structural Reforms and Elections : Evidence from a World-Wide New Dataset
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2020
We assemble two unique databases. One is on reforms in domestic finance, external finance, trade, product markets and labor markets, which covers 90 advanced and developing economies from 1973 to 2014. The other is on electoral results and timing of elections. In the 66 democracies considered in...
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Effects of Photo ID Laws on Registration and Turnout : Evidence from Rhode Island
Esposito, Francesco Maria - 2019
We study the effect of photo ID laws on voting using a difference-in-differences estimation approach around Rhode Island's implementation of a photo ID law. We employ anonymized administrative data to measure the law's impact by comparing voting behavior among those with drivers' licenses versus...
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The Welfare Effects of Social Media
Allcott, Hunt - 2019
weeks before the 2018 US midterm election (i) reduced online activity, while increasing offline activities such as watching …
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Hurricanes, Climate Change Policies and Electoral Accountability
Gagliarducci, Stefano - 2019
This paper studies how politicians and voters respond to new information on the threats of climate change. Using data on the universe of federal disaster declarations between 1989 and 2014, we document that congress members from districts hit by a hurricane are more likely to support bills...
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