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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 … single round elections. The predictions on the number of candidates and on policy volatility are confirmed by evidence from a …
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Time to Vote?
Gibson, John - 2011
) tools to validated national election survey data from New Zealand. We calculate distance and travel time by road from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122114
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Happy Voters
Liberini, Federica - 2014
Motivated by recent interest and initiatives taken by several governments and international organizations to come up with indicators of well-being to inform policy makers, we test if subjective well-being measures (SWB) can be employed to study voting behaviour. Controlling for financial and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046234
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The Impact of Incumbency on Turnout : Evidence from Italian Municipalities
De Benedetto, Marco Alberto - 2013
information on the electoral results of Italian municipal elections over the period 1993-2011. Endogeneity issues are handled …
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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
There is surprisingly little evidence on how terror attacks impact elections. With only a few exceptions, previous … comprehensive, multi-country examination of the effects of terror attacks on political opinions and election outcomes. The results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838460
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Run for Your Life? The Effect of Close Elections on the Life Expectancy of Politicians
Borgschulte, Mark - 2017
We use a regression discontinuity design to estimate the causal effect of election to political office on natural … governors and other political office holders live over one year longer than losers of close elections. The positive effects of … election appear in the mid-1800s, and grow notably larger when we restrict the sample to later years. We also analyze …
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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
We study the effect of term limits on voter turnout in local Italian elections. Since 2014 the Italian law allows … 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 … elections where a party either barely wins or loses an additional seat.We estimate that a one seat increase for the far … incumbency advantage in the next election. Exploring possible mechanisms, we find evidence that when the anti-immigrant party …
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Politics Before Pupils? Electoral Cycles and School Resources in India
Fagernäs, Sonja - 2014
states is often suspected to be marred by political haggling and corruption. Using rich administrative school-level panel … using staggered timing of state elections. We find that rulers allocate more primary school resources in the years preceding … and following elections, but there is only weak evidence that resources are targeted to marginal constituencies. The …
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