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Moderating Political Extremism: Single Round vs Runoff Elections under Plurality Rule
Bordignon, Massimo; Nannicini, Tommaso; Tabellini, Guido - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329028
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Electoral rules, political competition and fiscal expenditures: regression discontinuity evidence from Brazilian municipalities
Chamon, Marcos; de Mello, João M. P.; Firpo, Sergio - 2009
We exploit a discontinuity in Brazilian municipal election rules to investigate whether political competition has a … achieves a majority of the votes. We show that the possibility of runoff increases political competition. We use the … discontinuity as a source of exogenous variation to infer causality from political competition to fiscal policy. Our results suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275835
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Young versus Old Politicians in Local Politics
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal; Schirner, Sebastian - 2024
Do young politicians prioritize other types of municipal spending than old politicians? We study this question using hand-collected candidate-level data on municipal elections (1996-2020), along with detailed administrative data on municipal spending in Bavaria. Our identification strategy makes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014567588
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Politics in the Family: Nepotism and the Hiring Decisions of Italian Firms
Gagliarducci, Stefano; Manacorda, Marco - 2016
In this paper we investigate the effect of family connections to politicians on individuals' labor market outcomes. We combine data for Italy over almost three decades from longitudinal social security records on a random sample of around 1 million private sector employees with the universe of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479359
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Local Political Budget Cycles in a Federation: Evidence from West German Cities
Furdas, Marina; Homolkova, Katerina; Kis-Katos, Krisztina - 2015
This paper analyzes the occurrence of political budget cycles in 604 West German cities between 1975 and 2007. Due to the idiosyncratic timing of state and local elections, the budgetary changes before elections at two tiers of the federalist government can be separately estimated and can also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500294
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Can Gender Quotas in Candidate Lists Empower Women? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
Bagues, Manuel F.; Campa, Pamela - 2017
We provide a comprehensive analysis of the short- and medium-term effects of gender quotas in candidate lists using evidence from Spain, where quotas were introduced in 2007 in municipalities with more than 5,000 inhabitants, and were extended in 2011 to municipalities with more than 3,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744600
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Electoral Rules, Political Competition and Fiscal Expenditures: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities
Chamon, Marcos; Mello, João M. P. de; Firpo, Sergio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We exploit a discontinuity in Brazilian municipal election rules to investigate whether political competition has a … achieves a majority of the votes. We show that the possibility of runoff increases political competition. We use the … discontinuity as a source of exogenous variation to infer causality from political competition to fiscal policy. Our results suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008497585
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Moderating Political Extremism: Single Round vs Runoff Elections under Plurality Rule
Bordignon, Massimo; Nannicini, Tommaso; Tabellini, Guido - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010688397
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Local Political Budget Cycles in a Federation: Evidence from West German Cities
Furdas, Marina; Homolkova, Katerina; Kis-Katos, Krisztina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper analyzes the occurrence of political budget cycles in 604 West German cities between 1975 and 2007. Due to the idiosyncratic timing of state and local elections, the budgetary changes before elections at two tiers of the federalist government can be separately estimated and can also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011156469
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Competition, cooperation, and collective choice
Markussen, Thomas; Reuben, Ernesto; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2012
always adopted. If likely losers from competition have veto power, it is often not, and substantial gains in efficiency are …The ability of groups to implement efficiency-enhancing institutions is emerging as a central theme of research in … economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition, which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283979