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Careful what you say: the effect of manipulative information on the 2013 Czech presidential run-off election

Guzi, Martin; Mikula, Stepan - 2021

We exploit a quasi-natural experiment that emerged during the Czech presidential run-off election to identify the …

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Female political representation and violence against women : evidence from Brazil

Delaporte, Magdalena; Pino, Francisco - 2022

This paper studies the effect of female political representation on violence against women. Using a Regression Discontinuity design for close mayoral elections between female and male candidates in Brazil, we find that electing female mayors leads to a reduction in episodes of gender violence....

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Sozioökonomische Determinanten extremistischer Wahlerfolge in Deutschland : das Beispiel der Europawahlen 1994 und 1999

Rotte, Ralph; Steininger, Martin - 2000

Empirical research on the determinants of right and left-wing extremist election successes is still dominated by …

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A theory of political entrenchment

Saint-Paul, Gilles; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - 2012

We develop a theory of endogenous political entrenchment in a simple two-party dynamic model of income redistribution … theory for constitutionally legislated term limits is also discussed. The theory sheds light on why left-wing parties or …

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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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Are political and economic integration intertwined?

Bratsberg, Bernt; Facchini, Giovanni; Frattini, Tommaso; … - 2019

Economic incentives play a key role in the decision to run for office, but little is known on how they shape immigrants' selection into candidacy. We study this question using a two-period Roy model and show that if returns to labour market experience are higher for migrants than natives,...

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Competing approaches to forecasting elections : economic models, opinion polling and prediction markets

Leigh, Andrew (contributor); Wolfers, Justin (contributor) - 2006

basis of the state of the economy; public opinion polls; and election betting (prediction markets). We assess the efficacy … of each in light of the 2004 Australian election. This election is particularly interesting both because of innovations …. While the evidence for economic voting has historically been weak for Australia, the 2004 election suggests an increasingly …

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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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Redistributive politics and market efficiency : an experimental study

Großer, Jens; Reuben, Ernesto - 2009

We study the interaction between competitive markets that produce large but unequally distributed welfare gains and elections through which the poor majority can redistribute income away from the rich minority. In our simple laboratory democracy, subjects first earn their income by trading in a...

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