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Transparency and Policy Competition : Experimental Evidence from German Citizens and Politicians
Blesse, Sebastian; Lergetporer, Philipp; Nover, Justus; … - 2023
educational performance information may incentivize politicians to implement welfare-enhancing reforms …
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Election Systems, the "Beauty Premium" in Politics, and the Beauty of Dissent
Potrafke, Niklas - 2020
We ask three questions. First, do election systems differ in how they translate physical attractiveness of candidates into electoral success? Second, do political parties strategically exploit the "beauty premium" when deciding on which candidates to nominate, and, third, do elected MPs use...
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The Looks of a Winner : Beauty, Gender, and Electoral Success
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2007
We study the role of beauty in politics using candidate photos that figured prominently in electoral campaigns. Our investigation is based on visual assessments of 1,929 Finnish political candidates from 10,011 respondents (of which 3,708 were Finnish). An increase in beauty by one standard...
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Gender Gaps in Political Careers : Evidence from Competitive Elections
Cipullo, Davide - 2021
two-stage elections, candidates are admitted to the second round of voting based on the outcome of the first round. I find …
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(Dis)Honest Politicians and the Value of Transparency for Campaign Promises
Lang, Matthias - 2020
keeping can(not) be observed. We identify the causal effects of transparency in a laboratory experiment. Transparency leads to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012830361
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Collective Emotions and Protest Vote
Altomonte, Carlo - 2019
We leverage on important findings in social psychology to build a behavioral theory of protest vote. An individual develops a feeling of resentment if she loses income over time while richer people do not, or if she does not gain as others do, i.e. when her relative deprivation increases. In...
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Voting Advice Applications and Elections
Benesch, Christine; Heim, Rino; Schelker, Mark; Schmid, … - 2021
We analyze how the introduction of the voting advice application (VAA) smartvote affects voter turnout, voting behavior … change in voting behavior and we find no effects on aggregate electoral outcomes …
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Read My Lips? Taxes and Elections
Fuest, Clemens; Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas; … - 2021
–2014). Relating tax reforms to the timing of elections, we examine electoral cycles in tax reforms. Our results show that politicians …
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Migrants' Missing Votes
Giesing, Yvonne; Schikora, Felicitas - 2021
therefore have a systematic influence on election results. Using administrative migration and voting data, we show that counties … find no effects on incumbent parties. In addition, our results show increased voting for parties with pro …-wing parties. The results have important policy implications for voting regulations …
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Political Support, Cognitive Dissonance and Political Preferences
Artiga González, Tanja; Capozza, Francesco; Granic, … - 2022
-registered, online experiment with 1,200 U.S. participants confirms our main hypotheses. As predicted by cognitive dissonance theory …
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