In European Parliament elections turnout rates, traditionally lower than in national parliamentary elections, decrease …

We use a change in the voting procedures of one of the two chambers of the Swiss parliament to explore how transparency …

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 …

effect of being elected on subsequent income. Getting elected to parliament increases annual earnings initially by about €20 …

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

beginning of their terms, but in line with the preferences of single-issue minorities as they approach re-election. To assess …'s predictions, election proximity has a pro-gun effect on Democratic senators and a pro-environment effect on Republican senators … size. Also in line with our theory, election proximity has no impact on senators' decisions on reproductive rights, because …

state of Berlin and the federal level in Germany. State voting intentions for the state and for the federal parliament are … the endogenous variables; the federal election trend is treated as predetermined. Our results suggest that shocks in … federal parliament voting intention impact state parliament voting intention, but – as a new finding – to the same extent also …

year of a gubernatorial election, the elasticity of investment to the eventual margin of victory is 0.027. Both the …