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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 public sector careers. We describe how elections alter policy outputs and disrupt the influence of civil servants over agency decisions. These changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455748
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How Do Voters Matter? Evidence from US Congressional Redistricting
Jones, Daniel B. - 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/10012456153
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Votes or Money? Theory and Evidence from the US Congress
Bombardini, Matilde - 2007
implicitly delivers a novel method for estimating the impact of campaign spending on election outcomes: we find that an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464972
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The Effect of Social Media on Elections : Evidence from the United States
Fujiwara, Thomas; Müller, Karsten; Schwarz, Carlo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We study how social media affects election outcomes in the United States. We use variation in the number of Twitter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533398
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Elections and the Quality of Public Officials : Evidence from U.S. State Courts
Lim, Claire S.H. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460304
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The Electric Telegraph, News Coverage and Political Participation
Wang, Tianyi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Using newly digitized data on the growth of the telegraph network in America during 1840-1852, the paper studies the impacts of the electric telegraph on national elections. I use proximity to daily newspapers with telegraphic connections to Washington to generate plausibly exogenous variation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322855
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Electoral College and Election Fraud
Egorov, Georgij V.; Sonin, Konstantin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
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 … government is politically divided, and fraud is therefore more difficult and costly. Our theoretical model elucidates why the …
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Civil Rights Protests and Election Outcomes : Exploring the Effects of the Poor People's Campaign
Anderson, D. Mark; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Karbownik, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
estimate the effects of these protests on congressional election outcomes. In the South, we find that PPC protests led to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014447294
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Does Trade Liberalization with China Influence U.S. Elections?
Che, Yi - 2016
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456497
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Vote Early and Vote Often? Detecting Electoral Fraud from the Timing of 19th Century Elections
Ferlenga, Francesco; Knight, Brian G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper develops a new approach to detecting electoral fraud. Our context involves repeaters, individuals voting in 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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362047