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Is There an Incumbency Advantage or a Cost of Ruling in Proportional Election Systems?

Liang, Che-Yuan - 2007

proportional multiparty election system using data from Swedish local government elections. There are two notions of representation …

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Local Economies and General Elections

Elinder, Mikael - 2006

general elections from 1985 to 2002, using data on 284 municipalities and 9 regions. An increase in regional growth or a …

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An Economic Analysis of Voting in Sweden

Jordahl, Henrik - 2001

This paper presents a theoretical model of rational retrospective voting, which is tested empirically on pooled cross-sectional and panel data from the Swedish Election Studies between 1985 and 1994 supplemented with time series on inflation and unemployment. Compared with the cross-sectional...

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Did the 2017 tax reform discriminate against blue state voters?

Altig, David; Auerbach, Alan J.; Higgins, Patrick; … - 2019

The Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) made significant changes to corporate and personal federal income taxation, including limiting the SALT (state and local property, income and sales taxes) deductibility to $10,000. States with high SALT tend to vote Democratic. This paper estimates the...

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Is populism reversible? Evidence from Italian local elections during the pandemic

Bordignon, Massimo; Franzoni, Federico; Gamalerio, Matteo - 2023

We study the effect of economic insecurity on electoral outcomes using data on municipal elections in Italy. We …

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Term length and public finances: The case of U.S. governors

Klarin, Jonas - 2019

This paper studies how a politician's term length affects public finances. I test whether the gradual increase from two- to four-year terms for American governors affects state finances using a rich state-year panel stretching back almost a century. The results show that adopting four-year terms...

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The Effect of Elections on Economic Growth: Results from a Natural Experiment in Indonesia

Moricz, Sara; Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2014

elections on local economic growth in Indonesia by using a quasi-experimental research method. The first direct elections of …. Thus, growth in districts that have had their first elections of district heads can be compared with growth in districts … estimations show no general effect of local elections on economic growth. The result is robust to various robustness tests and is …

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Turkish Voter Response to Government Incompetence and Corruption Related to the 1999 Earthquakes

Akarca, Ali T.; Tansel, Aysit - 2012

officials who permitted them. How voters responded to these in the 2002 parliamentary elections is investigated, using cross …

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How does access to education influence political candidacy? Lessons from school openings in Sweden

Lindgren, Karl-Oskar; Oskarsson, Sven; Persson, Mikael - 2016

How does availability of education affect who becomes a political representative? Theorists have pointed out access to education as a key to a well-functioning democracy, but few empirical studies have examined how changes in the access to education influence the chances of becoming a...

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Institutional shocks and economic outcomes: Allende's election, Pinochet's coup and the Santiago stock market

Girardi, Daniele; Bowles, Samuel - 2017

To study the effect of political and institutional changes on the economy, we look at share prices in the Santiago exchange during the tumultuous political events that characterized Chile in the early 1970s. We use a transparent empirical strategy, deploying previously unused daily data and...

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