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Returns to office in national and local politics
Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Poutvaara, Panu; Terviö, Marko - 2016
system. We apply the method to the Finnish proportional open list system. Being elected to parliament increases annual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011493992
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Hurricanes, climate change policies and electoral accountability
Gagliarducci, Stefano; Paserman, Marco Daniele; … - 2019
This paper studies how politicians and voters respond to new information on the threats of climate change. Using data on the universe of federal disaster declarations between 1989 and 2014, we document that congress members from districts hit by a hurricane are more likely to support bills...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012006068
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Terrorism, political opinions, and election outcomes : evidence from Europe
Peri, Giovanni; Rees, Daniel I.; Smith, Brock - 2020
comprehensive, multi-country examination of the effects of terror attacks on political opinions and election outcomes. The results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012197466
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Does it matter how and how much politicians are paid?
Altindag, Duha Tore; Filiz, S. Elif; Tekin, Erdal - 2017
the parliament (MPs) in Turkey who are retired from their pre-political career jobs earn a pension bonus on top of their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011709824
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The political consequences of vaccines : quasi-experimental evidence from eligibility rules
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; González, Felipe - 2023
high-stakes election, voluntary voting, and a vaccination process halfway implemented by election day. Crucially, the roll …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014314275
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The electric telegraph, news coverage and political participation
Wang, Tianyi - 2023
Using newly digitized data on the growth of the telegraph network in America during 1840-1852, the paper studies the impacts of the electric telegraph on national elections. I use proximity to daily newspapers with telegraphic connections to Washington to generate plausibly exogenous variation...
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Is demonstrating against the far right worth it? : evidence from French presidential elections
Lagios, Nicolas; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume; Tojerow, Ilan - 2022
We study the electoral impact of protesting against the far right by investigating the demonstrations held during the 2002 French presidential elections against far-right candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen. Instrumenting rally attendance with rainfall while factoring in that some municipalities never...
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Competing approaches to forecasting elections : economic models, opinion polling and prediction markets
Leigh, Andrew (contributor); Wolfers, Justin (contributor) - 2006
basis of the state of the economy; public opinion polls; and election betting (prediction markets). We assess the efficacy … of each in light of the 2004 Australian election. This election is particularly interesting both because of innovations …. While the evidence for economic voting has historically been weak for Australia, the 2004 election suggests an increasingly …
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Redistributive politics and market efficiency : an experimental study
Großer, Jens; Reuben, Ernesto - 2009
We study the interaction between competitive markets that produce large but unequally distributed welfare gains and elections through which the poor majority can redistribute income away from the rich minority. In our simple laboratory democracy, subjects first earn their income by trading in a...
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Electoral accountability and corruption in local governments : evidence from audit reports
Ferraz, Claudio (contributor);  … - 2007
reports of an anti-corruption program in Brazil, to test whether the possibility of re-election affects the level of rents …
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