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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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Competing on good politicians
Galasso, Vincenzo; Nannicini, Tommaso - 2009
Is electoral competition good for political selection? To address this issue, we introduce a theoretical model in which ideological parties select candidates between party loyalists and experts, and allocate them into the electoral districts. Non-ideological voters, who care about national and...
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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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Is partisan alignment electorally rewarding? : evidence from village council elections in India
Dey, Subhasish; Sen, Kunal - 2016
Do ruling parties positively discriminate in favour of their own constituencies in allocating public resources? If they do, do they gain electorally in engaging in such a practice? This paper tests whether partisan alignment exists in the allocation of funds for India's largest social protection...
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Religious riots and electoral politics in India
Iyer, Sriya; Shrivastava, Anand - 2015
election results in India. We combine data on riots, which have been geo-coded, with electoral data on state legislature … districts. We find that riots occurring in the year preceding an election increases the vote share of the Bharatiya Janata Party … by 5 to 7 percentage points in the election. …
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