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Race and the Politics of Close Elections

Vogl, Tom - 2012

Elections between black and white candidates tend to involve close margins and high turnout. Using a novel dataset of municipal vote returns during the rise of black mayors in U.S. cities, this paper establishes new facts about turnout and competition in close interracial elections. In the...

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Vote Early and Vote Often? Detecting Electoral Fraud from the Timing of 19th Century Elections

Ferlenga, Francesco; Knight, Brian G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper develops a new approach to detecting electoral fraud. Our context involves repeaters, individuals voting in multiple states in the U.S. during 19th Century Congressional Elections. Given high travel times, and the associated difficulties of voting in multiple states on the same day,...

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Classical Right, New Right, and Voting Behavior : Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Sanz, Carlos - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

not run in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, a relatively representative electoral constituency, in the general election of July 23 …

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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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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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Local Electoral Incentives and Decentralized Program Performance

de Janvry, Alain - 2010

This paper analyzes how electoral incentives affected the performance of a major decentralized conditional cash transfer program intended on reducing school dropout rates among children of poor households in Brazil. We show that while this federal program successfully reduced school dropout by 8...

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How Do Voters Respond to Information? Evidence from a Randomized Campaign

Kendall, Chad - 2013

Rational voters update their subjective beliefs about candidates' attributes with the arrival of information, and subsequently base their votes on these beliefs. Information accrual is, however, endogenous to voters' types and difficult to identify in observational studies. In a large scale...

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Social Fragmentation, Public Goods and Elections : Evidence from China

Miquel, Gerard Padro i - 2012

This study examines how the economic effects of elections in rural China depend on voter heterogeneity, for which we proxy with religious fractionalization. We first document religious composition and the introduction of village-level elections for a nearly nationally representative sample of...

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