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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 citizens rather than their own private interests. Aside from elections, one of the few institutional devices available to regulate the actions of politicians is their pay...

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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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Who misvotes? : The effect of differential cognition costs on election outcomes

Shue, Kelly (contributor); Luttmer, Erzo F. P. (contributor) - 2006

If voters are fully rational and have negligible cognition costs, ballot layout should not affect election outcomes. In … from the 2003 California Recall Election. We find that the voteshares of minor candidates almost double when their names … the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election and the 2004 Washington Gubernatorial Election. We explore which voting technology …

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Building political collusion : evidence from procurement auctions

Coviello, Decio; Gagliarducci, Stefano - 2010

We investigate the relationship between the time politicians stay in office and the functioning of public procurement. To this purpose, we collect a data set on the Italian municipal governments and all the procurement auctions they administered between 2000 and 2005. Identification is achieved...

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Local electoral incentives and decentralized program performance

De Janvry, Alain; Finan, Frederico S.; Sadoulet, Elisabeth - 2010

This paper analyzes how electoral incentives affected the performance of a major decentralized conditional cash transfer program intended on reducing school dropout rates among children of poor households in Brazil. We show that while this federal program successfully reduced school dropout by 8...

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Vote-buying and reciprocity

Finan, Frederico S.; Schechter, Laura - 2011

While vote-buying is common, little is known about how politicians determine who to target. We argue that vote-buying can be sustained by an internalized norm of reciprocity. Receiving money engenders feelings of obligation. Combining survey data on vote-buying with an experiment-based measure...

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