opinion outcomes in dyadic regressions. After six months, friendship causes a reduction of differences in opinions by one … initially similar pairs, but absent in dissimilar pairs. Friendship affects opinion gaps by reducing divergence, therefore …

discuss Sweden's generous migration policy and how it can serve as an example where politicians' policy engagement led them to …In a representative democracy politicians should either implement policies that voters want or policies that … politicians believe are in voters long-term interest, even if voters currently oppose them. While the exact balance between these …

just before elections, when they are highly predictive of voting. In contrast to earlier studies I find no effect of voting … on political attitudes. This result holds for a variety of political attitudes and for both Sweden and the United States …. -- Cognitive dissonance ; Voting ; Elections ; Political Attitudes …

candidate-level data from Ireland and Sweden support the idea that dynastic ties help women overcome a vote disadvantage in …Throughout history and across countries, women appear more likely than men to enter politics at the heels of a close … elections, and that the quality of predecessors may be more relevant in the recruitment of female successors than their male …

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 …. -- Babyfacedness ; Competence ; Beauty ; Trustworthiness ; Elections …

data on personal votes in real elections with a web survey in which 2,513 non-Finnish respondents evaluated the facial … municipal and parliamentary elections and also have a larger beauty premium in municipal, but not in parliamentary, elections …. -- Beauty ; Elections ; Political candidates ; Appearance ; Ideology ; Partie …

correlate with district characteristics suggesting that district-elections allow districts to select more similar politicians. …

Sweden, we establish a causal chain from policies to sizeable individual gains and losses and then to voting. The Social … not to the later implementation of the reforms. -- Elections ; Economic voting ; Pocketbook voting ; Self …

economic growth, using panel data on 284 municipalities and 9 regions, covering Swedish general elections from 1982 to 2002 … effect than at the regional level and growth has no effect on government support. -- elections ; voting ; local economic …