Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 303
Cover Image
Sozioökonomische Determinanten extremistischer Wahlerfolge in Deutschland : das Beispiel der Europawahlen 1994 und 1999
Rotte, Ralph; Steininger, Martin - 2000
-wing "Republikaner" party and the left-wing Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) in the two recent elections of the European Parliament in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339684
Cover Image
The effect of labor migration on the diffusion of democracy : evidence from a former Soviet Republic
Omar Mahmoud, Toman; Rapoport, Hillel; Steinmayr, Andreas; … - 2014
Migration contributes to the circulation of goods, knowledge, and ideas. Using community and individual-level data from Moldova, we show that the emigration wave that started in the late 1990s strongly affected electoral outcomes and political preferences in Moldova during the following decade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250069
Cover Image
Returns to office in national and local politics
Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Poutvaara, Panu; Terviö, Marko - 2016
We estimate the effect of getting elected on future income development of political candidates. We present a bootstrap approach for measuring electoral closeness, which can be used to implement a regression discontinuity design in any electoral system. We apply the method to the Finnish...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011493992
Cover Image
Religious riots and electoral politics in India
Iyer, Sriya; Shrivastava, Anand - 2015
elections and control variables on demographics and public goods provision to construct a unique panel data set for 16 large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388302
Cover Image
Partisan fertility and presidential elections
Dahl, Gordon B.; Lu, Runjing; Mullins, William - 2021
Changes in political leadership drive sharp changes in public policy and partisan beliefs about the future. We exploit the surprise 2016 election of Trump to identify the effects of a shift in political power on one of the most consequential household decisions: whether to have a child....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012800554
Cover Image
Women's political representation and intimate partner violence
Anukriti, S; Erten, Bilge; Mukherjee, Priya - 2022
We estimate the impact of female leaders on intimate partner violence experienced by women in districts from which they are elected. Exposure to female leaders in state legislatures in India increases the likelihood that female constituents in rural areas report experiencing physical violence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013273665
Cover Image
Labor unions and the electoral consequences of trade liberalization
Ogeda, Pedro Molina; Ornelas, Emanuel; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2021
We show that the Brazilian trade liberalization in the early 1990s led to a permanent relative decline in the vote share of left-wing presidential candidates in the regions more affected by the tariff cuts. This happened even though the shock, implemented by a right-wing party, induced a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698641
Cover Image
Female political representation and violence against women : evidence from Brazil
Delaporte, Magdalena; Pino, Francisco - 2022
Discontinuity design for close mayoral elections between female and male candidates in Brazil, we find that electing female mayors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013263090
Cover Image
The spillover of anti-immigration politics to the schoolyard
Bracco, Emanuele; De Paola, Maria; Green, Colin; … - 2020
-immigration politics on school bullying. We use variations in the timing of municipal elections in Italy and focus on the effect of Lega … Nord, a far-right party, with a strong anti-immigration platform. We demonstrate that in municipalities where elections …, while they are absent for municipalities in which Lega Nord has little support, where no elections occurred and for native …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245042
Cover Image
Gender differences in political career progression : evidence from U.S. elections
Brown, Ryan; Mansour, Hani; O'Connell, Stephen D.; … - 2019
and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012100340