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Dancing with the Populist : new parties, electoral rules and Italian municipal elections

Bordignon, Massimo; Colussi, Tommaso - 2020

This paper develops a theoretical framework that makes predictions on (a) the conditions under which a populist party decides to run and the policy position it takes and (b) voters' response under different electoral systems. We test these predictions using data on Italian municipal elections...

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A Bayesian networks approach for analyzing voting behavior

Calvin, Miguel; Rey del Castillo, Pilar - 2023

The problem of finding the factors influencing voting behavior is of crucial interest in political science and is frequently analyzed in books and articles. But there are not so many studies whose supporting information comes from official registers. This work uses official vote records in Spain...

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Eat widely, vote wisely : lessons from a campaign against vote buying in Uganda

Blattman, Christopher; Larreguy, Horacio; Marx, Benjamin M. - 2024

We study a large-scale intervention designed by civil society organizations to reduce vote buying in Uganda’s 2016 elections. We study this intervention in light of a model where incumbents benefit from a first-mover and valence advantage, vote buying and campaigning are complementary, and...

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The political cost of being soft on crime : evidence from a natural experiment

Drago, Francesco; Galbiati, Roberto; Sobbrio, Francesco - 2017

We provide evidence about voters' response to crime control policies. We exploit a natural experiment arising from the … were more likely to report crime news involving pardoned individuals; ii) voters held worse beliefs on the incumbent … governments ability to control crime and iii) with respect to the previous elections, the incumbent national government …

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Voters' response to public policies : evidence from a natural experiment

Drago, Francesco; Galbiati, Roberto; Sobbrio, Francesco - 2017 - First Version: November 2016

. Moreover, in these municipalities: i) newspapers were more likely to report crime news involving pardoned individuals; ii …) voters held worse beliefs on the incumbent national government's ability to control crime and iii) with respect to the …

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Yardstick competition, corruption, and electoral incentives

Long, Ngo Van (contributor); … - 2008

the static setting with a dynamic scenario where each incumbent politician faces an election after a finite, fixed term …

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Electoral control when policies are for sale

Farvaque, Étienne; Lagadec, Gael - 2009

This article analyses the dynamics of electoral promises, building on an electoral competition model with endogenous policies. It extends the Grossman-Helpman (1994) model [Grossman G., Helpman E. [1994], "Protection for sale", American Economic Review, 84, 4, 833-850] to include sanctions from...