-specific gender bias in elections which can describe both the presence of a real comparative advantage ('kernel-of-truth' case, or …In this paper we study whether and how the belief that the gender of politicians affects their competence on different … investigate the relation between issue salience and women's performance using US data on House and Senate elections. Estimates of …

,448 candidates running in the local council elections of 2002, 2008 and 2014 across 1,632 municipalities in the German state of … Bavaria. Exploiting an open-list electoral system, we run RDD regressions centered around mixed-gender races for the last … council seat that accrues to a party. We find that a female victory in a mixed-gender race accelerates the expansion of public …

probability before the election (Maskin and Tirole’s “feedback” case). In the three-period case, with two elections, the dynamic …

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 …

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 …

Party performance in state and federal elections is highly interdependent. Federal elections impact regional voting …

retaliation is effective: in areas exposed to retaliation Republican candidates fared worse in the 2018 Midterm elections, and …

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 …