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The right look : conservative politicians look better and their voters reward it
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2011
Previous research has established that good-looking political candidates win more votes. We extend this line of research by examining differences between parties on the left and on the right of the political spectrum. Our study combines data on personal votes in real elections with a web survey...
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Efficiency consequences of affirmative action in politics : evidence from India
Das, Sabyasachi; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Saroy, Rajas - 2017
this did not happen due to changes in politicians' preferences or quality, and the increased provision of public goods did …
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Politicians' outside earnings and political competition
Becker, Johannes (contributor); Peichl, Andreas (contributor) - 2008
This paper deals with the impact of electoral competition on politicians' outside earnings. In our framework …, politicians face a tradeoff between allocating their time to political effort or to an alternative use generating outside earnings … that politicians facing low competition have substantially higher outside earnings. -- Political competition ; outside …
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Exposing corruption : can electoral competition discipline politicians?
Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Solan, Eilon - 2016
results suggest that over-reliance on elections to discipline politicians is misplaced. …
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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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Candidates' quality and electoral participation : evidence from Italian municipal elections
De Benedetto, Marco Alberto; De Paola, Maria - 2014
politicians' quality is positively affected by their wage and apply a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design relying on the fact …
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The gender recontest gap in elections
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal - 2021
This paper documents an important but mostly overlooked reason for female underrepresentation in politics: gender gaps in the recontest likelihood of candidates. Using hand-collected data on 116,185 candidates in four consecutive local council elections (2001-2016) in a German state, we provide...
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The impact of incumbency on turnout : evidence from Italian municipalities
De Benedetto, Marco Alberto; De Paola, Maria - 2013
capital we speculate that this is the result of incumbent politicians using their resources to establish clienteles. …
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Women legislators and economic performance
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Min, Brian; … - 2018
There has been a phenomenal global increase in the proportion of women in politics in the last two decades, but there is no evidence of how this influences economic performance. We investigate this using data on competitive elections to India's state assemblies, leveraging close elections to...
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Young versus old politicians in local politics
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal; Schirner, Sebastian - 2024
Do young politicians prioritize other types of municipal spending than old politicians? We study this question using …
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