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An Economic Analysis of Voting in Sweden
Jordahl, Henrik - Ratioinstitutet - 2002
Using data from the Swedish Election Studies between 1985 and 1994 supplemented with time series on inflation and …, been much more influential in determining election outcomes. Since previous studies of economic voting have used cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419161
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Nationalekonomi, privatekonomi och kommunbidrag: ekonomisk röstning i svenska riksdagsval
Jordahl, Henrik - Ratioinstitutet - 2002
denna sammanfattning av den första halvan av min doktorsavhandling Essays on Voting Behavior, Labor Market Policy, and Taxation, presenterar jag några resultat om väljarbeteende i svenska riksdagsval. Genom att studera hur några stickprov av svenskar uppger att de röstade i riksdagsvalen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771025
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Faces of politicians: Babyfacedness predicts inferred competence but not electoral success
Poutvaara, Panu; Jordahl, Henrik; Berggren, Niclas - Ratioinstitutet - 2009
Recent research has documented that competent-looking political candidates do better in U.S. elections and that … that babyfaced political candidates are perceived as less competent and therefore fare worse in elections. We test this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005036169
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The Looks of a Winner: Beauty, Gender and Electoral Success
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - Ratioinstitutet - 2006
female and male candidates and how different candidate traits relate to success in real and hypothetical elections. We have … success in real elections better than evaluations of competence, intelli-gence, likability, or trustworthiness. The beauty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005642446
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Supply Equals Success? The Sweden Democrats’ Breakthrough in the 2006 Local Elections
Erlingsson, Gissur; Loxbo, Karl; Öhrvall, Richard - Ratioinstitutet - 2009
), made a dramatic breakthrough in the 2006 local elections, gaining representation in 144 out of 290 municipalities. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005642452
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The Right Look: Conservative Politicians Look Better and Their Voters Reward it
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - Ratioinstitutet - 2010
data on personal votes in real elections with a web survey in which 2,513 non-Finnish respondents evaluated the facial … municipal and parliamentary elections and also have a larger beauty premium in municipal, but not in parliamentary, elections …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764024
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Working paper No. 240 Bloc – party Politics and Economic Outcomes. What Are the Effects of Local Parties?
Lakomaa, Erik; Korpi, Martin - Ratioinstitutet - 2014
In a much cited 2008 article, Per Pettersson-Lidbom uses regression discontinuity to test for Swedish party effects on economic policies such as municipal taxation, spending and employment. We reassess the issue using the same estimator as Pettersson-Lidbom but new data on all factual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011164356