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Do Americans favor female or male politicians? : evidence from experimental elections
Poutvaara, Panu; Graefe, Andreas - 2024
politicians' faces. When choosing between female and male candidates, Democrats, and especially Democratic women, preferred female …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015077941
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Gender differences in political career progression : evidence from U.S. elections
Brown, Ryan; Mansour, Hani; O'Connell, Stephen D.; … - 2019
This paper establishes the presence of a substantial gender gap in the relationship between state legislature service and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to compare the differential political career progression of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012100340
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The looks of a winner : beauty, gender and electoral success
Berggren, Niclas (contributor); Jordahl, Henrik (contributor) - 2006
"We study the role of beauty in politics. For the first time, focus is put on differences in how women and men evaluate female and male candidates and how different candidate traits relate to success in real and hypothetical elections. We have collected 16,218 assessments by 2,772 respondents of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003373407
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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 … by voters who elect politicians who assist their municipalities through federal expenditures. The main contribution of …. We focus on the geographical distribution of votes received by politicians within their electoral districts instead of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010238205
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344923
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Who runs? : honesty and self-selection into politics
Fehrler, Sebastian; Fischbacher, Urs; Schneider, Maik T. - 2016
We examine the incentives to self-select into politics and how they depend on the transparency of the entry process. To this end, we set up a two-stage political competition model and test its key mechanisms in the lab. At the entry stage, potential candidates compete in a contest to become...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543745
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The right look : conservative politicians look better and their voters reward it
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2011
appearance of 1,357 Finnish political candidates. We find that political candidates on the right are better looking in both … candidates ; appearance ; ideology ; parties …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009230687
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What drives the legalization of immigrants? : evidence from IRCA
Casarico, Alessandra; Facchini, Giovanni; Frattini, Tommaso - 2016
We develop a model to understand the trade-offs faced by an elected representative in supporting an amnesty when a restrictive immigration policy is in place. We show that an amnesty is more desirable the more restricted are the occupational opportunities of undocumented immigrants and the less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450218
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Path-breakers : how does women's political participation respond to electoral success?
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Lakshmi Iyer - 2013
This paper analyzes the effect of a woman's electoral victory on women's subsequent political participation. Using the regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men in India's state elections, we find that a woman winning office leads to a large and significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010222258
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803743