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estimate the effects of these protests on congressional election outcomes. In the South, we find that PPC protests led to …
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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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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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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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data from Brazil, we track the earnings and employment of campaign workers before and after close elections spanning nearly …
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election results in India. We combine data on riots, which have been geo-coded, with electoral data on state legislature … elections and control variables on demographics and public goods provision to construct a unique panel data set for 16 large … districts. We find that riots occurring in the year preceding an election increases the vote share of the Bharatiya Janata Party …
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the surprise 2016 election of Trump to identify the effects of a shift in political power on one of the most consequential …
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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...
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-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 …
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about the presidential election's outcome as well as their economic expectations to document several new facts. First …, people disagree strongly about the likely outcome of the election, despite widespread publicly available polling information …
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