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Special interest groups versus voters and the political economics of attention
Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2018
Asymmetric information between voters and legislative representatives poses a major challenge to the functioning of representative democracy. We examine whether representatives are more likely to serve long-term campaign donors instead of constituents during times of low media attention to...
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Campaign connections
Bazzi, Samuel; Labanca, Claudio - 2023
This paper explores the labor market returns to working on a victorious political campaign. Using unique administrative data from Brazil, we track the earnings and employment of campaign workers before and after close elections spanning nearly 20 years. We identify sizable returns to working for...
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Candidate quality
Poutvaara, Panu (contributor); Takalo, Tuomas (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002120356
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Pay for politicians and candidate selection : an empirical analysis
Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Poutvaara, Panu - 2009
In this paper, we estimate the effect of pay for politicians on who wants to be a politician. We take advantage of a … examine cross-party differences. -- Pay for politicians ; candidate selection ; gender differences in politics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003858861
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Does it matter how and how much politicians are paid?
Altindag, Duha Tore; Filiz, S. Elif; Tekin, Erdal - 2017
An important question in representative democracies is how to ensure that politicians behave in the best interest of … regulate the actions of politicians is their pay structure. In this paper, we provide fresh insights into the impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011709824
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Gender differences in political career progression : evidence from U.S. elections
Brown, Ryan; Mansour, Hani; O'Connell, Stephen D.; … - 2019
This paper establishes the presence of a substantial gender gap in the relationship between state legislature service and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to compare the differential political career progression of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012100340
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Television market size and political accountability in the US house of representatives
Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2022
This paper examines the role of local TV market structure in US congressional politics, exploiting variation in the overlaps of political markets and TV markets. Local TV stations are hypothesized to report relatively more per US House representative in less populous markets (where the number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191645
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Civil rights protests and election outcomes : exploring the effects of the Poor People's Campaign
Anderson, D. Mark; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Karbownik, … - 2023
The Poor People's Campaign (PPC) of 1968 was focused on highlighting, and ultimately reducing, poverty in the United States. As part of the campaign, protestors from across the country were transported to Washington, D.C. in 6 separate bus caravans, each of which made stops en route to rest,...
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The looks of a winner : beauty, gender and electoral success
Berggren, Niclas (contributor); Jordahl, Henrik (contributor) - 2006
"We study the role of beauty in politics. For the first time, focus is put on differences in how women and men evaluate female and male candidates and how different candidate traits relate to success in real and hypothetical elections. We have collected 16,218 assessments by 2,772 respondents of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003373407
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The relationship between federal budget amendments and local electoral power
Firpo, Sérgio Pinheiro; Ponczek, Vladimir; Sanfelice, … - 2014
The objectives of this paper are twofold. First, we investigate whether politicians use resources from the federal … by voters who elect politicians who assist their municipalities through federal expenditures. The main contribution of …. We focus on the geographical distribution of votes received by politicians within their electoral districts instead of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010238205