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Political Advertising and Election Outcomes
Spenkuch, Jörg L. - 2016
We implement a new approach for estimating the persuasive effects of political advertising. Our empirical strategy exploits FCC regulations that result in plausibly exogenous variation in the number of impressions across the borders of neighboring counties. Applying this approach to uniquely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996261
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The Right Look : Conservative Politicians Look Better and Their Voters Reward it
Berggren, Niclas - 2011
Previous research has established that good-looking political candidates win more votes. We extend this line of research by examining differences between parties on the left and on the right of the political spectrum. Our study combines data on personal votes in real elections with a web survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131348
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Electoral Competition as a Determinant of Fiscal Decentralization
Jametti, Mario - 2011
Fiscal decentralization is high on the agenda in policy fora. This paper empirically investigates the underlying causes of fiscal decentralization, based on the predictions of a simple political economy model. We argue that the likeliness that a central government engages in devolution of powers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120275
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Persuasion and Gender : Experimental Evidence from Two Political Campaigns
Galasso, Vincenzo - 2016
This paper investigates the differential response of male and female voters to competitive persuasion in political campaigns. We implemented a survey experiment during the (mixed gender) electoral race for mayor in Milan (2011), and a field experiment during the (same gender) electoral race for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992438
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Negative Campaigning in a Probabilistic Voting Model
Brueckner, Jan K.; Lee, Kangoh - 2021
This paper extends the small existing theoretical literature on negative campaigning, building on work by Harrington and Hess (1996). While their analysis explores the determinants of negative campaign spending using a classic spatial voting model, this paper relies instead on a probabilistic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315783
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Go Divisive or Not? How Political Campaigns Affect Turnout
Gennaioli, Caterina - 2021
This paper studies how political competition can lead candidates to strategically increase the salience of specific issues, in order to influence voting decisions of marginal groups, with non trivial consequences for turnout rates. In my setup issues differ in their divisiveness, to be defined...
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Identification of Voters with Interest Groups Improves the Electoral Chances of the Challenger
Sadiraj, Vjollca; Tuinstra, Jan; Van Winden, F. A. A. M. - 2021
winning the election …
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Information Markets, Elections and Contracts
Gersbach, Hans - 2011
Politicians may pander to public opinion and may renounce undertaking beneficial long-term projects. To alleviate this problem, we introduce a triple mechanism involving political information markets, reelection threshold contracts, and democratic elections. An information market is used to...
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Voting When the Stakes are High
Andersen, Jørgen Juel - 2010
positive effect of election stakes on turnout …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138026
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Divided Government Versus Incumbency Externality Effect - Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Multiple Voting Decisions
Ade, Florian - 2012
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 …
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