success in real elections better than evaluations of competence, intelligence, likability, or trustworthiness. The beauty …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 …

Australia, Finland, France, and the United States. This appearance gap gives candidates on the right an advantage in elections … 6% in the 2000-2006 U.S. Senate elections because they fielded candidates who looked more competent. These shifts are … Republicans also won nine of the 15 gubernatorial elections where looks were decisive. Using Finnish data, we also show that …

Recent research has documented that competent-looking political candidates do better in U.S. elections and that … that babyfaced political candidates are perceived as less competent and therefore fare worse in elections. We test this …

Recent research has documented that competent-looking political candidates do better in U.S. elections and that … that babyfaced political candidates are perceived as less competent and therefore fare worse in elections. We test this …

data from Brazil, we track the earnings and employment of campaign workers before and after close elections spanning nearly …

just before elections, when they are highly predictive of voting. In contrast to earlier studies I find no effect of voting …