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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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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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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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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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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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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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Political Parties as Drivers of U.S. Polarization : 1927-2018
Canen, Nathan; Kendall, Chad; Trebbi, Francesco - 2022
The current polarization of elites in the U.S., particularly in Congress, is frequently ascribed to the emergence of cohorts of ideologically extreme legislators replacing moderate ones. Politicians, however, do not operate as isolated agents, driven solely by their preferences. They act within...
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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...
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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...
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Does Trade Liberalization with China Influence U.S. Elections?
Che, Yi; Lu, Yi; Pierce, Justin R.; Schott, Peter K.; … - 2021
This paper examines the impact of trade liberalization on U.S. Congressional elections. We find that U.S. counties subject to greater competition from China via a change in U.S. trade policy exhibit relative increases in turnout, the share of votes cast for Democrats and the probability that the...
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