elections. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find that the share of female councilors rises by 18 percentage points …

government's competency to levy income, capital and turnover taxes to find out how the enfranchisement of women influences public … support for government spending. The first ballot took place shortly before the extension of suffrage to women in February …

Differences between the voting behavior of men and women have become one of the most significant issues in social … men and women in Turkey. There are significant differences between the genders, nevertheless. In particular, the effect of …

data on personal votes in real elections with a web survey in which 2,513 non-Finnish respondents evaluated the facial … municipal and parliamentary elections and also have a larger beauty premium in municipal, but not in parliamentary, elections …

governments ability to control crime and iii) with respect to the previous elections, the incumbent national government … experienced a worse electoral performance in the April 2008 national elections relative to the opposition coalition. Overall, our … findings indicate that voters keep incumbent politicians accountable by conditioning their vote on the observed effects of …

in those municipalities voters “punished” the incumbent national government in the 2008 parliamentary elections. In … politicians accountable by conditioning their vote on the observed effects of their policies …

We examine whether conservative politicians are less likely to support same-sex marriage when they run for office in … around 1.3 percentage points. We conjecture that politicians are election-motivated – even when submitting roll-call votes on …

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 …