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When Criminality Begets Crime : The Role of Elected Politicians in India

Prakash, Nishith; Sahoo, Soham; Saraswat, Deepak; … - 2022

This paper estimates the causal impact of electing criminally accused politicians and their nature of criminality on crime in India. We exploit the quasi-random variation in the outcome of close elections between candidates with and without criminal accusations to instrument the share of...

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The Gender Recontest Gap in Elections

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal - 2022

This paper documents an important but mostly overlooked reason for female underrepresentation in politics: gender gaps in the recontest likelihood of candidates. Using hand-collected data on 116,185 candidates in four consecutive local council elections (2001-2016) in a German state, we provide...

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Candidate Ballot Information and Election Outcomes : The Czech Case

Jurajda, Stepan - 2014

on higher candidate salience in small municipalities. We also quantify the election advantage of a slate being randomly …

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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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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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Gender Differences in Political Career Progression : Evidence from U.S. Elections

Brown, Ryan - 2019

election relative to an analogous impact for men who closely win or lose a state legislature election. We find that the effect …

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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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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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