The ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 officially granted voting rights to women across the United States …. However, many states extended full or partial suffrage to women before the federal amendment. In this paper, we discuss the … history of women's enfranchisement using an economic lens. We examine the demand-side, discussing the rise of the women …

When voters fear that politicians may have a right-wing bias or that they may be influenced or corrupted by the rich … right. Truly right-wing politicians respond by choosing more moderate, or even left-of-center policies. This populist bias … polarization between the policy preferences of the median voter and right-wing politicians; when politicians are indeed more likely …

A large theoretical and empirical literature explores whether politicians and political parties change their policy … answer empirically. We study attitudes towards the signature policies of small parties in Sweden using panel data from 290 … assigns council seats, comparing otherwise similar elections where one party either barely wins or loses an additional seat …

data further reveal that legislators generally have accurate beliefs about public opinion on corruption and understand its … relevance to voters. An informational treatment updates legislators' beliefs about public opinion. The treatment produces …

We estimate valence measures for candidates running in U.S. House elections from data on vote shares. Our estimates … political economy. We illustrate its usefulness by studying the source of incumbency advantage in U.S. House elections …

We use 201,000 observations from repeated survey data in 61 elections and 9 OECD countries since 1952 to study the …