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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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Guns, Environment, and Abortion : How Single-Minded Voters Shape Politicians' Decisions
Bouton, Laurent - 2018
intensely about. We develop a model in which office and policy motivated politicians choose to support or oppose regulations on … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918057
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Political Polarization and the Electoral Effects of Media Bias
Bernhardt, Dan; Krasa, Stefan; Polborn, Mattias - 2021
position of the median voter does not change. We show that media bias provides a mechanism through which political polarization … suppression bias and update appropriately, important information is lost through bias, potentially resulting in inefficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317647
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316074
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992438
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Voting on Thresholds for Public Goods : Experimental Evidence
Rauchdobler, Julian; Sausgruber, Rupert; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2021
voluntary provision of public goods. In our one-shot experiment, we find that coordination often fails and exogenously imposed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316272
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316216
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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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Returns to Office in National and Local Politics
Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Poutvaara, Panu; Terviö, Marko - 2021
We study the returns to political office using data from Finnish parliamentary elections in 1970-2007 and municipal elections in 1996-2008. The discontinuity of electoral outcomes in individual candidate votes allows us to estimate the causal effect of being elected on subsequent income. Getting...
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