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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140277
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140760
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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 … political data at regional level from all the French regional elections (including 2010). The empirical results show that French …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140446
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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 … elections. I show that ticket splitting is a natural outcome of the optimal reelection scheme adopted by voters to motivate … regional elections held in Spain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140559
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014192563
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Targeting Voters on Television : Does Candidate Gender Lead to Strategic Voter Targeting?
Kolodny, Robin - 2010
The literature on gender and campaigns is rich and has evolved rapidly. The most persistent topic in gender and campaigning has to do with media coverage of candidate campaigns. Next, studies of the content of political advertising emerged with a heavy emphasis on the imagery and issues...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140532
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Personalized Candidate Campaigns in Open-Ballot PR Elections
Lutz, Georg - 2010
chamber elections – to empirically investigate some of Carey and Shugart's (1995) original claims about candidates' incentives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140715
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A Note on Optimal Vote and Turnout Buying
Casas, Agustin - 2013
In this paper, we model a patron-client relationship where the incumbent may either persuade or mobilize voters; that is, he can pay citizens to vote for him - vote buying - or he can pay citizens to show up to vote - turnout buying - respectively. Furthermore, we are interested in the optimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013094516
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Intention to Vote, Reported Vote, and Validated Vote
Achen, Christopher - 2011
Pre-election “intention to vote” has come to substitute for “reported vote” or “validated vote” in many studies of turnout. The differences among them have been little studied. In this report, we examine all three jointly in a single U.S. dataset for what we believe is the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133273
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Contextual Incentives and the Determinants of Voting Choices
Lachat, Romain - 2010
elections are competitive. In such contexts, voters should attach more importance to their own choice and rely less on … the proportionality of the electoral system. Elections are more competitive when there are many parties in competition … hypotheses are tested with data from the 2007 Swiss federal elections. The electoral districts differ markedly from one another …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140218