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Strict Voter Identification Laws, Turnout, and Election Outcomes
Hoekstra, Mark - 2019
can affect voter turnout and election outcomes. We do so using historical data on more than 2,000 races in Florida and … small effect on turnout. Similarly, we also show under a range of conservative assumptions that very few election results … or critics were true, strict identification laws are unlikely to have a meaningful impact on turnout or election outcomes …
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Backlash in Policy Attitudes after the Election of Extreme Political Parties
Carlsson, Magnus - 2015
and one from the far left, using panel data from 290 municipal election districts. To identify causal effects, we compare …
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Understanding the Success of the Know-Nothing Party
Alsan, Marcella; Eriksson, Katherine; Niemesh, Gregory - 2022
We study the contribution of economic conditions to the success of the first avowedly nativist political party in the United States. The Know-Nothing Party gained control of a number of state governments in the 1854-1856 elections running on a staunchly anti-Catholic and anti-Irish platform. Our...
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Party Discipline and Pork Barrel Politics
Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan - 2021
Polities differ in the extent to which political parties can pre-commit to carry out promised policy actions if they take power. Commitment problems may arise due to a divergence between the ex ante incentives facing national parties that seek to capture control of the legislature and the ex...
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Do Political Parties Matter? Evidence from U.S. Cities
Ferreira, Fernando V. - 2012
election. The absence of a strong partisan impact on policy in American cities, which is in stark contrast to results at the …
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Bribery or Just Desserts? Evidence on the Influence of Congressional Voting Patterns on Pac Contributions from Exogenous Variation in the Sex Mix of Legislator Offspring
Conley, Dalton - 2010
Evidence on the relationship between political contributions and legislators' voting behavior is marred by concerns about endogeneity in the estimation process. Using a legislator's offspring sex mix as an exogenous variable, we employ a two-stage least squares estimation procedure to predict...
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An Experiment in Candidate Selection
Casey, Katherine - 2019
Are ordinary citizens or political party leaders better positioned to select candidates? While the American primary system lets citizens choose, most democracies rely instead on party officials to appoint or nominate candidates. The consequences of these distinct design choices are unclear:...
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Skill of the Immigrants and Vote of the Natives : Immigration and Nationalism in European Elections 2007-2016
Moriconi, Simone - 2018
In this paper we document the impact of immigration at the regional level on Europeans' political preferences as expressed by voting behavior in parliamentary or presidential elections between 2007 and 2016. We combine individual data on party voting with a classification of each party's...
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The Political Impact of Immigration : Evidence from the United States
Mayda, Anna Maria - 2018
county-level data on election outcomes between 1990 and 2010. Our main contribution is to separate the effect of high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919330
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Globalization and its (Dis-)Content : Trade Shocks and Voting Behavior
Dippel, Christian - 2015
We identify the causal effect of trade-integration with China and Eastern Europe on voting in Germany from 1987 to 2009. Looking at the entire political spectrum, we find that only extreme-right parties respond significantly to trade integration. Their vote share increases with import...
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