interested in: Does the partisan identity of the mayor influence the voter's decision in the subsequent town council election … the mayor on the result of the last council election? We rely on a regression discontinuity design focusing on close … election outcomes based on municipal level data for Germany. We find that the party of the mayor can receive a bonus of 4 …

Random factors such as bad weather or exogenous economic shocks affect the re-election of politicians and can reduce … accountability. Such distorted election choices interact with the architecture of government. Contrasting centralized with … decentralized political systems, this study shows that centralization is likely to result in higher accountability if election …

We identify exogenous variation in incumbent policymakers' re-election probabilities and explore empirically how this … variation affects the incumbents' investment in physical capital. Our results indicate that a higher re-election probability …

equilibrium policy is smaller, because their bargaining power is reduced compared to a single ballot election. The predictions on …

the static setting with a dynamic scenario where each incumbent politician faces an election after a finite, fixed term …