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How Do Voters Matter? Evidence from Us Congressional Redistricting
Jones, Daniel - 2016
How does the partisan composition of an electorate impact the policies adopted by an elected representative? We take advantage of variation in the partisan composition of Congressional districts stemming from Census-initiated redistricting in the 1990's, 2000's, and 2010's. Using this variation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984766
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Inferring the Ideological Affiliations of Political Committees Via Financial Contributions Networks
Chen, Yiran - 2017
pairwise difference in ideology groups' connection patterns satisfy a condition known as the Chernoff-Hellinger divergence … categorize the ideological affiliations of the political committees, our estimates match the self reported ideology for 94.36% of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012941159
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How Do Voters Respond to Information? Evidence from a Randomized Campaign
Kendall, Chad - 2013
expose different areas of the polity to controlled informational treatments about the valence and ideology of the incumbent … ideology. We find that both valence and ideological messages affect the first and second moments of the belief distribution …, but only campaigning on valence brings more votes to the incumbent. With respect to ideology, cross-learning occurs, as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082775
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Left, Right, Left : Income, Learning and Political Dynamics
Morrow, John - 2013
The political left turn in Latin America, which lagged its transition to liberalized market economies by a decade or more, challenges conventional economic explanations of voting behavior. This paper generalizes the forward-looking voter model to a broad range of dynamic, non-concave income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074913
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Elections, Ideology, and Turnover in the U.S. Federal Government
Bolton, Alexander - 2016
A defining feature of public sector employment is the regular change in elected leadership. Yet, we know little about how elections influence careers. We describe how elections can alter policy outputs and disrupt civil servants' influence over agency decisions, potentially shaping their career...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977612
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Overconfidence in Political Behavior
Ortoleva, Pietro - 2013
strength of partisan identification. Moreover, the model makes many nuanced predictions about the patterns of ideology in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013078592
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Importing Political Polarization? The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade Exposure
Autor, David H. - 2016
Has rising import competition contributed to the polarization of U.S. politics? Analyzing outcomes from the 2002 and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982947
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Smooth Politicians and Paternalistic Voters : A Theory of Large Elections
Faravelli, Marco - 2011
models such as the underdog effect and the competition effect. Finally, under the case of selfish agents, we are able to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120312
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Did the New Deal Solidify the 1932 Democratic Realignment?
Kantor, Shawn - 2012
The critical election of 1932 represented a turning point in the future electoral successes of the Democrats and Republicans for over three decades. This paper seeks to measure the importance of the New Deal in facilitating the Democrats' control of the federal government well into the 1960s. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098482
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Do Newspapers Serve the State? Incumbent Party Influence on the Us Press, 1869-1928
Gentzkow, Matthew - 2012
Using data from 1869 to 1928, we estimate the effect of party control of state governments on the entry, exit, circulation, prices, number of pages, and content of Republican and Democratic daily newspapers. We exploit changes over time in party control of the governorship and state legislatures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104982