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The Impact of Incumbency on Turnout : Evidence from Italian Municipalities

De Benedetto, Marco Alberto - 2013

We analyze how having an incumbent among candidates affects electoral turnout. We use a rich data set providing information on the electoral results of Italian municipal elections over the period 1993-2011. Endogeneity issues are handled through an instrumental variable approach using the mayor...

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Competing on Good Politicians

Galasso, Vincenzo - 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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Terrorism, Political Opinions, and Election Outcomes : Evidence from Europe

Peri, Giovanni - 2020

comprehensive, multi-country examination of the effects of terror attacks on political opinions and election outcomes. The results …

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Term Limit Extension and Electoral Participation : Evidence from a Diff-in-Discontinuities Design at the Local Level in Italy

De Benedetto, Marco Alberto - 2018

improve the quality of politicians running for election …

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Backlash in Attitudes after the Election of Extreme Political Parties

Carlsson, Magnus - 2018

from the right and one from the left, using panel data from 290 municipal election districts. To identify causal effects … incumbency advantage in the next election. Exploring possible mechanisms, we find evidence that when the anti-immigrant party … wins a marginal seat, they experience higher levels of politician turnover before the next election and receive negative …

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Candidates' Quality and Electoral Participation : Evidence from Italian Municipal Elections

De Benedetto, Marco Alberto - 2014

We analyze the impact of the quality of candidates running for a mayor position on turnout using a large data set on Italian municipal elections held from 1993 to 2011. We firstly estimate a municipal fixed effects model and show that an increase in the average quality of candidates competing at...

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Minority Groups and Success in Election Primaries

Epstein, Gil S. - 2018

In this paper, we focus on the effect of belonging to one or more minority groups on the probability of success in primary elections. Using a unique dataset of candidates in Israeli primaries, we find that while being a new immigrant, a woman or a Muslim decreases the chances of electoral...

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Moderating Political Extremism : Single Round vs Runoff Elections Under Plurality Rule

Bordignon, Massimo - 2013

We compare single round vs runoff elections under plurality rule, allowing for partly endogenous party formation. Under runoff elections, the number of political candidates is larger, but the influence of extremist voters on equilibrium policy and hence policy volatility are smaller, because the...

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Turnout in the Municipal Elections of March 2020 and Excess Mortality During the Covid-19 Epidemic in France

Bertoli, Simone - 2020

We analyze the consequences of the decision of French government to maintain the first round of the municipal elections on March 15, 2020 on local excess mortality in the following weeks. We exploit heterogeneity across municipalities in voter turnout, which we instrument using a measure of the...

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Appointed or Elected? How Mayoral Accountability Impacts the Provision of Policing

Colombo, Andrea; Tojerow, Ilan - 2021

This paper studies how the system by which mayors are elected impacts mayoral accountability and their provision of public goods. To do so, we analyze policing and crime incidence under mayors directly elected by voters and under mayors appointed by an elected body. Our identification strategy...

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