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Vote Buying in the US Congress
Matter, Ulrich - 2019
We assess the influence of moneyed interests on legislative decisions. Our theory predicts that the vote outcome distribution and donation flows in a legislature feature a discontinuity at the approval threshold of bills if special interest groups are involved in vote buying. Testing the...
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Backlash in Attitudes after the Election of Extreme Political Parties
Carlsson, Magnus - 2018
from the right and one from the left, using panel data from 290 municipal election districts. To identify causal effects … incumbency advantage in the next election. Exploring possible mechanisms, we find evidence that when the anti-immigrant party … wins a marginal seat, they experience higher levels of politician turnover before the next election and receive negative …
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Dancing with the Populist. New Parties, Electoral Rules and Italian Municipal Elections
Bordignon, Massimo; Colussi, Tommaso - 2021
This paper develops a theoretical framework that makes predictions on (a) the conditions under which a populist party decides to run and the policy position it takes and (b) voters’ response under different electoral systems. We test these predictions using data on Italian municipal elections...
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Young Voters and Budget Deficits
Nyhus, Ole Henning; Strøm, Bjarne - 2023
This paper exploits a novel trial in Norwegian local elections in 2011 to provide empirical evidence on fiscal performance from lowering the minimum voting age from 18 to 16. Using a difference in differences research strategy, we find that this voting age change reduced the net operating...
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How Does Party Discipline Affect Legislative Behavior? Evidence from Within-Session Variation in Lame Duck Status
Fiva, Jon H.; Nedregård, Oda - 2022
-in-discontinuity design, we study how shocks to incumbents’ re-election probabilities affect legislative behavior in a setting where parties …
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Gender Differences in Political Career Progression : Evidence from U.S. Elections
Brown, Ryan - 2019
election relative to an analogous impact for men who closely win or lose a state legislature election. We find that the effect …
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Measuring the Competitiveness of Elections
Cox, Gary W. - 2019
The concept of electoral competition plays a central role in many subfields of political science, but no consensus exists on how to measure it. One key challenge is how to conceptualize and measure electoral competitiveness at the district level across alternative electoral systems. Recent...
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The Gender Recontest Gap in Elections
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal - 2022
This paper documents an important but mostly overlooked reason for female underrepresentation in politics: gender gaps in the recontest likelihood of candidates. Using hand-collected data on 116,185 candidates in four consecutive local council elections (2001-2016) in a German state, we provide...
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Electoral Cycles in Macroeconomic Forecasts
Cipullo, Davide; Reslow, André - 2021
This paper documents the existence of Political Forecast Cycles. In a theoretical model of political selection, we show that governments release overly optimistic GDP growth forecasts ahead of elections to increase the reelection probability. The bias arises from lack of commitment if voters are...
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Gender Gaps in Political Careers : Evidence from Competitive Elections
Cipullo, Davide - 2021
This paper investigates the impact of voter support on the representation of women in the political profession. The empirical analysis exploits two-stage elections in the United States and Italy to hold the selection of candidates constant. In two-stage elections, candidates are admitted to the...
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