and past election results. We isolate the impact of candidates' rankings using an RDD in French local and parliamentary … candidates and voters and of election outcomes …

practice, incumbency advantage and coordination issues may lead to the (re)election of bad politicians. We ask whether these … elections, we find that winning an election increases candidates' chances to win the next election by 25.1 percentage points … conclude that party coordination and voters rallying candidates who won or gained visibility in an election both contribute to …

empirically show the presence of policy diffusion using neighbors' election cycles as instruments for neighbors' policy adoption …. Second, we further demonstrate interactions of municipalities' election cycles with neighbors' adoption and show that they … follow neighbors' policy only during their own election timing, indicating that policy diffuses through elections …

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 …