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Persuasion and Gender : Experimental Evidence from Two Political Campaigns
Galasso, Vincenzo - 2016
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 mayor in Cava de' Tirreni (2015). In both cases, a sample of eligible … gender differences emerge. Females vote more for the opponent and less for the incumbent when they are exposed to the …
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Does Partisan Alignment Affect the Electoral Reward of Intergovernmental Transfers?
Sole-Olle, Albert; Sorribas-Navarro, Pilar - 2021
In this paper we test the hypothesis that intergovernmental grants allocated to co-partisans buy more political support than grants allocated to local governments controlled by opposition parties. We use a rich Spanish database containing information about the grants received by 617...
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Men Vote in Mars, Women Vote in Venus: A Survey Experiment in the Field
Galasso, Vincenzo; Nannicini, Tommaso - CESifo - 2013
bundle of advertising tools (videos, texts, slogans). Stark gender differences emerge. Negative advertising increases men … not driven by gender identification with the candidate, ideology, or other voter’s observable attributes. Effective … strategies of persuasive communication should thus take gender into account. Our results may also help to reconcile the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010679376
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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...
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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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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...
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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
Interest groups are introduced in a spatial model of electoral competition between two political parties. We show that, by coordinating voting behavior, these interest groups increase the winning set, which is defined as the set of policy platforms for the challenger that will defeat the...
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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 Efficacy of Political Advertising : A Voter Participation Field Experiment with Multiple Robo Calls and Controls for Selection Effects
Kling, Daniel - 2016
We document the effectiveness of robo calls for increasing voter participation despite most published research finding little or no effect of automated calls. We establish this finding in a large field experiment in a targeted, partisan get-out-the-vote campaign. Our experimental design includes...
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