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Backlash in attitudes after the election of extreme political parties
Carlsson, Magnus; Dahl, Gordon B.; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2018
from the right and one from the left, using panel data from 290 municipal election districts. To identify causal effects … incumbency advantage in the next election. Exploring possible mechanisms, we find evidence that when the anti-immigrant party … wins a marginal seat, they experience higher levels of politician turnover before the next election and receive negative …
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Partisan fertility and presidential elections
Dahl, Gordon B.; Lu, Runjing; Mullins, William - 2021
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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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 politicians change public attitudes?
Carlsson, Magnus; Dahl, Gordon B.; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2016
municipal election districts. To identify causal effects, we take advantage of large nonlinearities in the function which … more votes in the next election after gaining a seat, while the anti-immigrant and far left parties lose their incumbency …
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Political selection when uncertainty is high
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal; Khasanboev, … - 2022
Do voters place their trust in tried and tested leaders when uncertainty is high or do they prefer a new slate of leaders who are arguably more competent? To study this question, we make use of hand-collected data on 402,385 candidates who competed in open-list local council elections...
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Gender bias in the reelection of politicians (when a crisis strikes)
Hessami, Zohal; Khasanboev, Termurbek - 2024
in open-list local council elections (1997-2021) in the German state of Hesse. We exploit the March 2021 election one …
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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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Intergenerational correlations of extreme right-wing party preferences and attitudes toward immigration
Avdeenko, Alexandra; Siedler, Thomas - 2015
This study analyzes the importance of parental socialization on the development of children's far right-wing preferences and attitudes towards immigration. Using longitudinal data from Germany, our intergenerational estimates suggest that the strongest and most important predictor for young...
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The effect of far right parties on the location choice of immigrants : evidence from Lega Nord Mayors
Bracco, Emanuele; De Paola, Maria; Green, Colin; … - 2017
narrow margins of victory in a Regression Discontinuity framework. The election of Lega Nord mayor discourages immigrants …
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