We compare single ballot vs dual ballot elections under plurality rule, assuming sincere voting and allowing for partly … equilibrium policy is smaller, because their bargaining power is reduced compared to a single ballot election. The predictions on … the number of parties and on policy volatility are consistent with data on municipal elections in Italy, where cities with …

these issues. We derive conditions under which politicians flip-flop, voting according to their policy preferences at the … 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 …

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

In European Parliament elections turnout rates, traditionally lower than in national parliamentary elections, decrease … from one elections to the next, and show strong variations within and between countries. What explains this decline? Why … analyzing the last four EP elections in the EU-13, for 156 regions. We first study the spatial features of turnout and …

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

regression discontinuity design with millions of observations suggests that advertising's impact on elections is largely due to …

We use a change in the voting procedures of one of the two chambers of the Swiss parliament to explore how transparency … affects the voting behavior of its members. Until 2013, the Council of States (Ständerat) had voted by a show of hands. While …-consuming screening of online videos. In 2014, halfway through the legislative period, the chamber switched to electronic voting. Since …

democratic elections. An information market is used to predict the long-term performance of a policy, while threshold contracts …

-6 percentage points in vote share in the next town council election (depending on the timing of the local elections). The mayor … interested in: Does the partisan identity of the mayor influence the voter's decision in the subsequent town council election …?; Does this partisan identity influence the vote in ensuing higher level elections?; and Do voters condition their vote for …