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Faces to politicians : babyfacedness predicts inferred competence but not electoral success

Poutvaara, Panu; Jordahl, Henrik; Berggren, Niclas - 2009

Recent research has documented that competent-looking political candidates do better in U.S. elections and that babyfaced individuals are generally perceived to be less competent than maturefaced individuals. Taken together, this suggests that babyfaced political candidates are perceived as less...

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Women's representation and public spending

Svaleryd, Helena (contributor) - 2007

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The looks of a winner : beauty, gender and electoral success

Berggren, Niclas (contributor); Jordahl, Hnerik (contributor) - 2006

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Female representation but male rule? : party competition and the political glass ceiling

Folke, Olle; Rickne, Johanna - 2012

numbers to study the drivers of a gender gap in political influence among elected politicians. Using panel data for the … careers of 35.000 Swedish municipal politicians over six election cycles we first document the said gender gap. Women are … meritocracy is not enforced. Positive correlations between competition and measures of competence for elected politicians of both …

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Political selection in China : the complementary roles of connections and performance

Jia, Ruixue; Kudamatsu, Masayuki; Seim, David - 2014

- and examine how their chances of promotion depend on their performance in office and connections with top politicians. Our … empirical analysis, based on the curriculum vitae of Chinese politicians, shows that connections and performance are complements … allowing incumbent top politicians to select competent provincial leaders without risking being ousted. Auxiliary evidence …

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Gender quotas and women's political leadership

O'Brien, Diana Z.; Rickne, Johanna - 2014

Though more than 100 countries have adopted gender quotas, the impacts of these reforms on women's political leadership remain largely unknown. We exploit a quasi-experiment - a zipper quota imposed by the Swedish Social Democratic national party on municipal party groups - to examine quotas'...

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The right look : conservative politicians look better and voters reward it

Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2010 - Revised version: February 8, 2012

Previous research has established that good-looking political candidates win more votes. We extend this line of research by examining differences between parties on the left and on the right of the political spectrum. Our study combines data on personal votes in real elections with a web survey...

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The glass ceiling in politics : formalization and empirical tests

Folke, Olle; Rickne, Johanna - 2014

empirical tests for this phenomenon and apply them to longitudinal data on Swedish politicians. Results show that women face a …

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Gender quotas and the crisis of the mediocre man : theory and evidence from Sweden

Besley, Timothy; Folke, Olle; Persson, Torsten; Rickne, … - 2013

data on labor-market performance to craete a measure of the competence of politicians. We investigate the effects of the … politicians where it raised the share of female representation the most. …

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Friendship networks and political opinions : a natural experiment among future French politicians

Algan, Yann; Dalvit, Nicolò; Do, Quoc-Anh; Le … - 2019

We study how friendship shapes students' political opinions in a natural experiment. We use the indicator whether two students were exogenously assigned to a short-term \integration group", unrelated to scholar activities and dissolved before the school year, as instrumental variable for their...

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