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The Electoral Connection and Participation on House Roll Call Votes, 1820 to 1920

Baughman, John - 2010

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Gender and Roll Call Voting Behavior in Congress : A Cross-Chamber Analysis

Frederick, Brian P. - 2010

Numerous studies have examined the roll call voting behavior of women in Congress. Much of this scholarship has focused … voting behavior of US Senators and US House members on a scale that allows for comparisons across each chamber this study … analyzes the voting records of Female Senators, Male Senators, Female House Members and Male House Members in the 109th-111th …

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The Politician and the Vote Factory : How Funding Sources Lead to an Efficient Election Campaign?

Foucault, Martial - 2010

This paper uses a new database on campaign funding on French members of parliament to analyze their efficiency. The database includes the level of funding, as well as the origin of the resources the politicians have at their disposal. The funding sources are identified with true resources used...

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National Forces v. Local Forces : French Regional Elections

Fauvelle-Aymar, Christine - 2010

In French national elections, the presence of a national economic vote is clear. However, the character of the economic vote is less clear at the regional level. Assuming regional elections are second order, voters may wish to signal the national incumbent, by rewarding or punishing it for...

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Fiscal Governance and Electoral Accountability : Evidence from Late Budgets

Lassen, David Dreyer - 2010

, consistent with models of retrospective voting …

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Split-Ticket Voting : An Implicit Incentive Approach

Zudenkova, Galina - 2010

Voters often split tickets, voting for candidates from different parties in simultaneous elections. In this paper, I … politicians' efforts in a retrospective voting environment. I assume that an office-motivated politician (mayor or governor … parties. The model is dynamic, generating predictions of split-ticket voting over time. I show that ticket splitting is less …

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Non-Partisan 'Get-Out-The-Vote' Efforts and Policy Outcomes

Roberson, Brian - 2010

This paper utilizes a simple model of redistributive politics with voter abstention to analyze the impact of nonpartisan ‘get-out-the-vote' efforts on policy outcomes. Although such efforts are often promoted on the grounds that they provide the social benefit of increasing participation in...

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Partisanship and Determination of Election Outcomes

Kretschman, Kyle; Mastronardi, Nick - 2010

This paper estimates how campaign expenditures, candidate incumbency, and voter registration distributions determine U.S. House of Representative vote shares using congressional election data. We quantify the magnitude of these factors using a voter discrete choice demand model similar to Berry,...

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