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Can term limits accelerate women's access to top political positions? : quasi-experimental evidence from Italy
Kansikas, Carolina; Bagues, Manuel F. - 2024
We investigate whether term limits can help historically underrepresented groups, such as women, gain faster access to positions of political power. We exploit evidence from Italian local elections where, in a context of rapidly increasing women's presence in politics, mayoral term limits were...
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Black empowerment and white mobilization : the effects of the Voting Rights Act
Bernini, Andrea; Facchini, Giovanni; Tabellini, Marco; … - 2023
empowerment is more tangible and salient due to the election of African Americans in county commissions. Additional analysis …
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Terrorism, political opinions, and election outcomes : evidence from Europe
Peri, Giovanni; Rees, Daniel I.; Smith, Brock - 2020
comprehensive, multi-country examination of the effects of terror attacks on political opinions and election outcomes. The results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012197466
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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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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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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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The relationship between federal budget amendments and local electoral power
Firpo, Sérgio Pinheiro; Ponczek, Vladimir; Sanfelice, … - 2014
The objectives of this paper are twofold. First, we investigate whether politicians use resources from the federal budget as a strategy to maintain and expand their political capital. Second, we examine whether such a strategy is rewarded by voters who elect politicians who assist their...
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Candidates' quality and electoral participation : evidence from Italian municipal elections
De Benedetto, Marco Alberto; De Paola, Maria - 2014
We analyze the impact of the quality of candidates running for a mayor position on turnout using a large data set on Italian municipal elections held from 1993 to 2011. We firstly estimate a municipal fixed effects model and show that an increase in the average quality of candidates competing at...
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Candidate ballot information and election outcomes : the Czech case
Jurajda, Štěpán; Münich, Daniel - 2014
on higher candidate salience in small municipalities. We also quantify the election advantage of a slate being randomly …
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