corruption, which is more widespread in poor countries, reduces more the electoral appeal of capitalism than that of socialism … externality since the existence of corrupt entrepreneurs hurts good entrepreneurs by reducing the electoral appeal of capitalism …

implicitly delivers a novel method for estimating the impact of campaign spending on election outcomes: we find that an …

We study how social media affects election outcomes in the United States. We use variation in the number of Twitter … presidential elections, but had limited effects on Congress elections and previous presidential elections. Evidence from survey … data, primary elections, and a text analysis of millions of tweets suggests that Twitter's relatively liberal content may …

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 elections - i.e., there is a strong correlation between the …

impacts of the electric telegraph on national elections. I use proximity to daily newspapers with telegraphic connections to … Washington news with less delay had a robust positive effect on voter turnout in national elections. For mechanisms, I provide …

One frequently overlooked aspect of the U.S.-style electoral college system is that it discourages election fraud. In a … presidential election based on the popular vote, competing political parties are motivated to manipulate votes in areas where they … electoral college system provides more effective protection against election fraud compared to the popular vote system. While …

estimate the effects of these protests on congressional election outcomes. In the South, we find that PPC protests led to …

how elections influence public sector careers. We describe how elections alter policy outputs and disrupt the influence of … 2011, we evaluate how elections influence employee turnover decisions. We find that presidential elections increase … the start of presidential terms. We also find suggestive evidence that vacancies in high-level positions after elections …

This paper examines the impact of trade liberalization on U.S. Congressional elections. We find that U.S. counties …

multiple states in the U.S. during 19th Century Congressional Elections. Given high travel times, and the associated … difficulties of voting in multiple states on the same day, we exploit the staggered introduction of holding federal elections on …