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The looks of a winner : beauty, gender, and electoral success

Berggren, Niclas (contributor); Jordahl, Henrik (contributor) - 2007

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Foremny, Dirk; Riedel, Nadine - 2012

autonomously by German municipalities. As election dates vary across local councils, the data allows us to disentangle effects … behavior as the growth rate of the local business tax is significantly reduced in the election year and the year prior to the … election, while it jumps up in the year after the election. This pattern turns out to be robust against a number of sensitivity …

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Expert politicians, electoral control, and fiscal restraints

Dulleck, Uwe; Wigger, Berthold U. - 2012

Fiscal restraints have been argued to force today's governments to internalize the externalities that result from extensive borrowing on future electorates and governments as well as on other countries by causing fiscal instability. In this article we provide an alternative argument for fiscal...

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Gender quotas and the quality of politicians

Baltrunaite, Audinga (contributor) - 2012

We analyze the effect of the introduction of gender quotas in candidate lists on the quality of elected politicians. We consider an Italian law which introduced gender quotas in local elections in 1993, and was abolished in 1995. As not all municipalities went through elections during the period...

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Divided government versus incumbency externality effect : quasi-experimental evidence on multiple voting decisions

Ade, Florian; Freier, Ronny - 2011 - This Version: August 30, 2011

interested in: (1) Does the partisan identity of the mayor influence the voter's decision in the subsequent town council election … vote for 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 (1) that the party of the mayor can receive a …

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Returns to office in national and local politics

Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Poutvaara, Panu; Terviö, Marko - 2013

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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Electoral uncertainty, fiscal policies & growth : theory and evidence from Germany, the UK and the US

Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Malley, James R.; … - 2003

uncertain prospects of re-election, find it optimal to follow relatively shortsighted fiscal policies, and that this lowers …

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Electoral cycles in MPs' salaries : evidence from the German States

Kauder, Björn; Krause, Manuela; Potrafke, Niklas - 2016

Members of parliament (MPs) often decide on their own salaries. Voters dislike self-serving politicians, and politicians are keen to gratify their voters. In line with the political business cycle theories, politicians thus may well delay deciding on increases in salaries until after elections....

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Democratic participation and the size of regions : an empirical study using data on German counties

Seitz, Helmut (contributor) - 2008

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Candidate quality

Poutvaara, Panu; Takalo, Tuomas - 2003

We analyze the topical question of how the compensation of elected politicians affects the set of citizens choosing to run. To this end, we develop a sparse and tractable citizen-candidate model of representative democracy with ability differences, informative campaigning and political parties....

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