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The Electoral Consequences of Large Fiscal Adjustments
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011
The conventional wisdom regarding the political consequences of large reductions of budget deficits is that they are very costly for the governments which implement them: they are punished by voters at the following elections. In the present paper, instead, we find no evidence that governments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117557
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Elections and the Quality of Public Officials : Evidence from U.S. State Courts
Lim, Claire - 2012
We investigate the influence of electoral rules and voter information in elections on voting outcomes and the quality of public officials, using new data on state court judge elections in 39 states in the U.S. from 1990 to 2010. We find, first, that voting is very partisan in partisan judicial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100995
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Race and the Politics of Close Elections
Vogl, Tom - 2012
Elections between black and white candidates tend to involve close margins and high turnout. Using a novel dataset of municipal vote returns during the rise of black mayors in U.S. cities, this paper establishes new facts about turnout and competition in close interracial elections. In the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101812
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Elections in China
Martinez-Bravo, Monica - 2012
We examine the effects of introducing village elections on public goods expenditures, income distribution and land use in rural China. We construct a large panel data set of village administrative records to document the history of political reforms and economic policies for over two hundred...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106081
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An Experimental Study of Alternative Campaign Finance Systems : Donations, Elections and Policy Choices
Fang, Hanming - 2014
structure about donors - on donations, election outcomes, political candidates' policy choices, and welfare. Three alternative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067391
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Structural Reforms and Elections : Evidence from a World-Wide New Dataset
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2020
We assemble two unique databases. One is on reforms in domestic finance, external finance, trade, product markets and labor markets, which covers 90 advanced and developing economies from 1973 to 2014. The other is on electoral results and timing of elections. In the 66 democracies considered in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842477
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Votes or Money? Theory and Evidence from the Us Congress
Bombardini, Matilde - 2008
implicitly delivers a novel method for estimating the impact of campaign spending on election outcomes: we find that an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773176
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Election Polls, Free Trade, and the Stock Market : Evidence from the Canadian General Election
Brander, James A. - 2007
This paper examines the relationship between the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE) and election polls during the 1988 … Canadian General Election campaign. Two hypotheses are investigated: first, did polls influence the TSE, and secondly, if so …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777145
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Moderating Elections
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2007
This paper extends the spatial theory of voting to an institutional structure in which policy choices are a function of the composition of the legislature and of the executive. In an institutional setup in which the policy outcome depends upon relative plurality, each voter has incentives to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777148
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Who Misvotes? The Effect of Differential Cognition Costs on Election Outcomes
Shue, Kelly - 2007
If voters are fully rational and have negligible cognition costs, ballot layout should not affect election outcomes. In … from the 2003 California Recall Election. We find that the voteshares of minor candidates almost double when their names … the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election and the 2004 Washington Gubernatorial Election. We explore which voting technology …
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