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How Do Voters Respond to Information? Evidence from a Randomized Campaign
Kendall, Chad - 2013
Rational voters update their subjective beliefs about candidates' attributes with the arrival of information, and subsequently base their votes on these beliefs. Information accrual is, however, endogenous to voters' types and difficult to identify in observational studies. In a large scale...
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Persuasion and Gender : Experimental Evidence from Two Political Campaigns
Galasso, Vincenzo - 2016
campaigns. We implemented a survey experiment during the (mixed gender) electoral race for mayor in Milan (2011), and a field … experiment during the (same gender) electoral race for mayor in Cava de' Tirreni (2015). In both cases, a sample of eligible … gender differences emerge. Females vote more for the opponent and less for the incumbent when they are exposed to the …
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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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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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The Right Look : Conservative Politicians Look Better and Their Voters Reward it
Berggren, Niclas - 2011
Previous research has established that good-looking political candidates win more votes. We extend this line of research by examining differences between parties on the left and on the right of the political spectrum. Our study combines data on personal votes in real elections with a web survey...
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Exposing Corruption : Can Electoral Competition Discipline Politicians?
Afridi, Farzana - 2016
In developing countries with weak institutions, there is implicitly a large reliance on elections to instill norms of accountability and reduce corruption. In this paper we show that electoral discipline may be ineffective in reducing corruption when political competition is too high or too low....
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The Looks of a Winner : Beauty, Gender and Electoral Success
Poutvaara, Panu - 2006
We study the role of beauty in politics. For the first time, focus is put on differences in how women and men evaluate female and male candidates and how different candidate traits relate to success in real and hypothetical elections. We have collected 16,218 assessments by 2,772 respondents of...
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Does Secular Education Impact Religiosity, Electoral Participation and the Propensity to Vote for Islamic Parties? Evidence from an Education Reform in a Muslim Country
Cesur, Resul - 2014
Using a unique survey of adults in Turkey, we find that an increase in educational attainment, due to an exogenous secular education reform, decreases women's propensity to identify themselves as religious, lowers their tendency to wear a religious head cover (head scarf, turban or burka) and...
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Candidate Ballot Information and Election Outcomes : The Czech Case
Jurajda, Stepan - 2014
preferential votes received by a candidate, and, ultimately, for getting elected. We focus on the effects of gender, various types …
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Voting Patterns and the Gender Wage Gap
Adnan, Wifag - 2018
Striving for gender equality presents major challenges but the benefits are vast, ranging from reduced conflict, both … within and between communities, to higher economic growth. Unfortunately, Israel's gender wage gap remains one of the highest … among developed countries, despite a growing reverse gender gap in educational attainment. Investigating the gender wage gap …
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