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The Impact of Campaign Finance Rules on Candidate Selection and Electoral Outcomes : Evidence from France
Broberg, Nikolaj; Pons, Vincent; Tricaud, Clemence - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper investigates the effects of campaign finance rules on electoral outcomes. In French departmental and municipal elections, candidates competing in districts above 9,000 inhabitants face spending limits and are eligible for public reimbursement if they obtain more than five percent of...
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Ideology and Performance in Public Organizations
Spenkuch, Jörg L.; Teso, Edoardo; Xu, Guo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
registration data to study how ideological alignment between politicians and bureaucrats affects the personnel policies and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510551
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Combating Political Corruption with Policy Bundles
Finan, Frederico S.; Mazzocco, Maurizio - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
In this paper, we develop a dynamic model of politicians who can engage in corruption. The model offers important … probabilities, increasing politicians' wages, and extending term limits. We document that while voters have a high willingness to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510561
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Career Concerns and the Dynamics of Electoral Accountability
Iaryczower, Matiás; Meirowitz, Adam; Lopez-Moctezuma, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
accountability. We estimate the preferences for office and policy of members of the US Senate, using a structural approach that … accountability in competitive and uncompetitive elections. We find that senators differ markedly in the value they give to securing … willing to make relatively large policy concessions to attain electoral gains. Nevertheless, electoral accountability is only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191061
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Finite- and Large-Sample Inference for Ranks using Multinomial Data with an Application to Ranking Political Parties
Bazylik, Sergei; Mogstad, Magne; Romano, Joseph P.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
It is common to rank different categories by means of preferences that are revealed through data on choices. A prominent example is the ranking of political candidates or parties using the estimated share of support each one receives in surveys or polls about political attitudes. Since these...
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Estimating Candidate Valence
Kawai, Kei; Sunada, Takeaki - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We estimate valence measures for candidates running in U.S. House elections from data on vote shares. Our estimates control for endogeneity of campaign spending and sample selection of candidates due to endogenous entry. Our identification and estimation strategy builds on ideas developed for...
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The Political Economy of Anti-Bribery Enforcement
Cohen, Lauren; Li, Bo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper documents novel evidence on the influence of political incentives in the regulatory enforcement of foreign bribery. Using exogenous variation in the timing and geographic location of U.S. Congressional elections, we find that the probability of a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)...
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Votes For Women : An Economic Perspective on Women’s Enfranchisement
Moehling, Carolyn - 2020
The ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 officially granted voting rights to women across the United States. However, many states extended full or partial suffrage to women before the federal amendment. In this paper, we discuss the history of women's enfranchisement using an...
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Endogenous Social Connections in Legislatures
Battaglini, Marco - 2019
We present a model of the U.S. Congress in which social connections among Congress members are endogenous and matter for their legislative activity. We propose a novel equilibrium concept for the network formation game that allows for a sharp characterization of equilibrium behavior and that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479937
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Whitelashing : Black Politicians, Taxes, and Violence
Logan, Trevon D. - 2019
politicians. I find a strong positive effect of local tax revenue on subsequent violence against black politicians. A dollar … had the largest negative tax revenue changes between 1870 and 1880 and that violence against black politicians is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479963