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Moderating political extremism : single round vs runoff elections under plurality rule
Bordignon, Massimo; Nannicini, Tommaso; Tabellini, … - 2013
We compare single round vs runoff elections under plurality rule, allowing for partly endogenous party formation. Under runoff elections, the number of political candidates is larger, but the influence of extremist voters on equilibrium policy and hence policy volatility are smaller, because the...
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The impact of fiscal and political decentralization on local public investments in Indonesia
Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Sjahrir Putra, Bambang Suharnoko … - 2014
We investigate the effects of the Indonesian decentralization and democratization process on budget allocation at the … infrastructure. We find that after the dramatic expenditure decentralization of 2001, districts with relatively lower levels of … and administrative decentralization, we find no consistent effects of the democratization process on local public …
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Socio-spatial transformations, suburbanisation, and voting behaviour in the Vilnius urban region
Ubarevičienė, Rūta; Burneika, Donatas; Ham, Maarten van - 2012
This paper analyses the interrelationship between the process of suburbanization and a changing political and ethnic landscape in the Vilnius urban region. The region surrounding Vilnius city is dominated by Polish identity residents while those who suburbanise into the region are mainly ethnic...
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Men vote in Mars, women vote in Venus : a survey experiment in the field
Galasso, Vincenzo; Nannicini, Tommaso - 2013
This paper investigates the differential response of male and female voters to competitive persuasion in political campaigns. During the 2011 municipal elections in Milan, a sample of eligible voters was randomly divided into three groups. Two were exposed to the same incumbent's campaign but to...
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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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How do voters respond to information? : evidence from a randomized campaign
Kendall, Chad; Nannicini, Tommaso; Trebbi, Francesco - 2013
Rational voters update their subjective beliefs about candidates' attributes with the arrival of information, and subsequently base their votes on these beliefs. Information accrual is, however, endogenous to voters' types and difficult to identify in observational studies. In a large scale...
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Dancing with the populist: new parties, electoral rules and Italian municipal elections
Bordignon, Massimo; Colussi, Tommaso - 2020
This paper develops a theoretical framework that makes predictions on (a) the conditions under which a populist party decides to run and the policy position it takes and (b) voters' response under different electoral systems. We test these predictions using data on Italian municipal elections...
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Do elections affect immigration? : evidence from French municipalities
Schmutz, Benoît; Verdugo, Gregory - 2023
Using thirty years of municipal elections in France, we show that election results affect the share of immigrants across municipalities. In municipalities where a left- instead of right-wing mayor has been elected, the share of immigrants in the population grows faster by 1.5 p.p. within six...
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Gender bias in the reelection of politicians (when a crisis strikes)
Hessami, Zohal; Khasanboev, Termurbek - 2024
This paper sheds light on a neglected reason for women's underrepresentation in politics: crisis-induced gender gaps in incumbents' reelection with lasting negative effects on female representation. We use hand-collected data on 173,339 candidates in open-list local council elections (1997-2021)...
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Distributional effects of intergovernmental transfers in Mexico
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Cadena, Kiyomi; Moreno … - 2020
A rigorous understanding of the developmental effect of fiscal transfers to subnational governments remains an important policy research issue globally. This paper exploits a novel dataset of 20 years of municipal poverty maps and local public finances to study the effects on local welfare of a...
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