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Young versus old politicians in local politics
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal; Schirner, Sebastian - 2024
Do young politicians prioritize other types of municipal spending than old politicians? We study this question using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014535218
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Do better paid politicians perform better? : disentangling incentives from selection
Gagliarducci, Stefano; Nannicini, Tommaso - 2009
The wage paid to politicians affects both the choice of citizens to run for an elective office and the performance of … sector, an increase in politicians' pay may change their mind. Second, if the reelection prospects of incumbents depend on … performance. Our results show that a higher wage attracts more educated candidates, and that better paid politicians size down the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003896409
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Returns to office in national and local politics
Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Poutvaara, Panu; Terviö, Marko - 2016
We estimate the effect of getting elected on future income development of political candidates. We present a bootstrap approach for measuring electoral closeness, which can be used to implement a regression discontinuity design in any electoral system. We apply the method to the Finnish...
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Women in political bodies as policymakers
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014229572
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Motivating politicians : the impacts of monetary incentives on quality and performance
Ferraz, Claudio (contributor);  … - 2008
Recent studies have emphasized the importance of the quality of politicians for good government and consequently … politicians and perform competently in office becomes a central question. In this paper, we examine whether higher wages attract … better quality politicians and improve political performance using exogenous variation in the salaries' of local legislators …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003679397
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Freedom of speech, deterrence, and compellence in the parliament
Altindag, Duha Tore; Mocan, Naci; Zhang, Jie - 2021
analysis in the literature of the impact of Parliamentary immunity on the behavior and performance of politicians. Leveraging a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517500
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Management and performance in the public sector : evidence from German municipalities
Englmaier, Florian; Mühlheußer, Gerd; Roider, Andreas; … - 2022
We study management practices and performance of public sector organizations in Germany. For a representative sample of municipalities, we provide survey evidence for substantial heterogeneity in the use of structured management practices. This heterogeneity is not driven by differences across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013431644
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Gender interactions within hierarchies : evidence from the political arena
Gagliarducci, Stefano; Paserman, Marco Daniele - 2009
This paper studies gender interactions within hierarchical organizations using a large data set on the duration of Italian municipal governments elected between 1993 and 2003. A municipal government can be viewed as a hierarchy, whose stability over time depends on the degree of cooperation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831711
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Electoral accountability and corruption in local governments : evidence from audit reports
Ferraz, Claudio (contributor);  … - 2007
extracted by incumbent politicians. Exploiting variation induced by the existence of a term limit, we find that in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003599697
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Building political collusion : evidence from procurement auctions
Coviello, Decio; Gagliarducci, Stefano - 2010
We investigate the relationship between the time politicians stay in office and the functioning of public procurement …
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