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This paper shows why a majority of legislators may vote for a policy that benefits a firm but harms all legislators. The firm may induce legislators to support the policy by suggesting that it is more likely to invest in a district whose voters or representative support the policy. In...
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probability before the election (Maskin and Tirole’s “feedback” case). In the three-period case, with two elections, the dynamic …
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Migration contributes to the circulation of goods, knowledge, and ideas. Using community and individual-level data from Moldova, we show that the emigration episode that started in the late 1990s strongly affected political preferences and electoral outcomes in Moldova during the following...
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We study the returns to political office using data from Finnish parliamentary elections in 1970-2007 and municipal … elections in 1996-2008. The discontinuity of electoral outcomes in individual candidate votes allows us to estimate the causal …
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This paper studies the impact of campaign spending on votes in French legislative elections. We exploit the political … augmented. We have data on two consecutive elections (one before and one after the reforms) and focus on candidates who competed … in both of them. We find that the difference in candidates’ campaign expenses across elections is strongly affected by …
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Party performance in state and federal elections is highly interdependent. Federal elections impact regional voting …
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retaliation is effective: in areas exposed to retaliation Republican candidates fared worse in the 2018 Midterm elections, and …
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I examine whether elections influence perceived corruption in the public sector. Perceived corruption in the public … perceived corruption in the public sector increased before elections. The effect is especially pronounced before early elections … (1.0 points) compared to regular elections (0.4 points). Future research needs to investigate why perceived corruption in …
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We present and test a theory of prospective and retrospective pocketbook voting. Focusing on two large reforms in Sweden, we establish a causal chain from policies to sizeable individual gains and losses and then to voting. The Social Democrats proposed budget cuts affecting parents with young...
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We present a model of elections in which interest group donations allow candidates to shift policy positions. We show …
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