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What determines preferences for an electoral system? : evidence from a binding referendum
Riambau, Guillem; Stillman, Steven; Boe-Gibson, Geua - 2017
Much has been written about politicians' preferences for electoral systems, yet little is known about the preferences of voters. In 1993, New Zealand had a binding electoral referendum on the same day as the general election where voters chose between keeping a single plurality system (First...
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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...
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Exposing corruption : can electoral competition discipline politicians?
Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Solan, Eilon - 2016
In developing countries with weak institutions, there is implicitly a large reliance on elections to instill norms of … belonging to the state of Andhra Pradesh during 2006-10 and on elections to the village council headship in 2006. Our results … results suggest that over-reliance on elections to discipline politicians is misplaced. …
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Term limit extension and electoral participation : evidence from a diff-in-discontinuities design at the local level in Italy
De Benedetto, Marco Alberto; De Paola, Maria - 2018
We study the effect of term limits on voter turnout in local Italian elections. Since 2014 the Italian law allows …
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An experimental study of voting with costly delay
Kwiek, Maksymilian; Marreiros, Helia; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2015
A conclave is a voting mechanism in which a committee selects an alternative by voting until a sufficient supermajority is reached. We study experimentally welfare properties of simple three-voter conclaves with privately known preferences over two outcomes and waiting costs. The resulting game...
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Mr. Rossi, Mr. Hu and politics : the role of immigration in shaping natives' political preferences
Barone, Guglielmo; D'Ignazio, Alessio; De Blasio, Guido; … - 2014
We analyze the impact of immigration on voting. Using Italian municipality data and IV estimation strategy, we find that immigration generates a sizable causal increase in votes for the centre-right coalition, which has a political platform less favorable to immigrants. Additional findings are:...
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Does money make people right-wing and inegalitarian? : a longitudinal study of lottery winners
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014
The causes of people's political attitudes are largely unknown. We study this issue by exploiting longitudinal data on lottery winners. Comparing people before and after a lottery windfall, we show that winners tend to switch towards support for a right-wing political party and to become less...
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The right look : conservative politicians look better and their voters reward it
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2011
data on personal votes in real elections with a web survey in which 2,513 non-Finnish respondents evaluated the facial … municipal and parliamentary elections and that they have a larger beauty premium in municipal, but not in parliamentary …, elections. As municipal candidates are relatively unknown, the beauty-premium gap indicates that voters "especially those to the …
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Income contingency and the electorate's support for tuition
Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2022
We show that the electorate's preferences for using tuition to finance higher education strongly depend on the design of the payment scheme. In representative surveys of the German electorate (N18,000), experimentally replacing regular upfront by deferred income-contingent payments increases...
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Immigration policy and Hispanics' willingness to run for office
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Bucheli, José R. - 2020
enforcement disproportionately impacting Latinos. Using county-level data on all candidates running for congressional elections …
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