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Incumbency Advantage in Non-Democracies
Egorov, Georgy - 2014
In elections that take place in a less-than-perfect democracy, incumbency advantages are different from those in mature democracies. The incumbent can prevent credible challengers from running, organize vote fraud, or even physically eliminate his main opponents. At the same time, formally...
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Family Violence and Football : The Effect of Unexpected Emotional Cues on Violent Behavior
Card, David - 2009
Family violence is a pervasive and costly problem, yet there is no consensus on how to interpret the phenomenon of … violence by one family member against another. Some analysts assume that violence has an instrumental role in intra … using data on police reports of family violence on Sundays during the professional football season. Controlling for location …
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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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Using Donald Trump's COVID-19 Vaccine Endorsement to Give Public Health a Shot in the Arm : A Large-Scale Ad Experiment
Larsen, Bradley J.; Hetherington, Marc J.; Greene, Steven; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We report a large-scale randomized controlled trial designed to assess whether the partisan cue of a provaccine message from Donald Trump would induce Americans to get COVID-19 vaccines. Our study involved presenting a 27-second advertisement to millions of U.S. YouTube users in October 2021....
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Hit or Miss? The Effect of Assassinations on Institutions and War
Jones, Benjamin F. - 2007
Assassinations are a persistent feature of the political landscape. Using a new data set of assassination attempts on all world leaders from 1875 to 2004, we exploit inherent randomness in the success or failure of assassination attempts to identify assassination's effects. We find that, on...
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Market-based Lobbying : Evidence from Advertising Spending in Italy
DellaVigna, Stefano - 2013
An extensive literature has studied lobbying by special interest groups. We analyze a novel lobbying channel: lobbying businessmen-politicians through business proxies. When a politician controls a business, firms attempting to curry favors shift their spending towards the politician's business....
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What Motivates Leaders to Invest in Nation-Building?
Giuliano, Paola; Reich, Bryony; Riboni, Alessandro - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Why do some leaders invest in significant nation-building policies and others do not? Why does nation-building occur at certain junctures in time and not others? In our research, we investigate what motivates leaders to nation build. We argue that threats to their regime motivate rulers to...
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Political Power, Elite Control, and Long-Run Development : Evidence from Brazil
Ferraz, Claudio - 2020
's military dictatorship whose rise to power dramatically altered the distribution of power of local political elites. We document … that municipalities that were more politically concentrated prior to the dictatorship in the 1960s are relatively richer in …
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Why Does Democracy Need Education?
Glaeser, Edward - 2006
civic participation, including voting and organizing. In the battle between democracy and dictatorship, democracy has a wide … potential base of support but offers weak incentives to its defenders. Dictatorship provides stronger incentives to a narrower …
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Odious Debt
Kremer, Michael - 2002
Some argue that sovereign debt incurred without the consent of the people and not for their benefit, such as that of apartheid South Africa, should be considered odious and not transferable to successor governments. We argue that an institution that truthfully announced whether regimes are...
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