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"Good Politicians" : Experimental Evidence on Motivations for Political Candidacy and Government Performance
Gulzar, Saad; Khan, Muhammed - 2023
How can we motivate good politicians those that will carry out policy that is responsive to citizens' preferences to enter politics? In a field experiment in Pakistan, we vary how political office is portrayed to ordinary citizens. We find that emphasizing prosocial motives for holding political...
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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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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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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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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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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 … 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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Is Partisan Alignment Electorally Rewarding? Evidence from Village Council Elections in India
Dey, Subhasish - 2016
Do ruling parties positively discriminate in favour of their own constituencies in allocating public resources? If they do, do they gain electorally in engaging in such a practice? This paper tests whether partisan alignment exists in the allocation of funds for India's largest social protection...
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Politics Before Pupils? Electoral Cycles and School Resources in India
Fagernäs, Sonja - 2014
inspections. We also show that around election years, teachers spend more time on "non-teaching" activities. The political cycles …
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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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