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This paper uses variation in the timing of the Mexican antipoverty program's introduction across municipalities to identify its impact on the share of votes for the local incumbent party. Evidence is found that voters reward the mayor's party for the central benefit to their constituencies,...
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the extreme persistence of the effect to the relative incidence of these age groups in the voting population, and explore …
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This paper characterizes the optimal advertising strategy of candidates in an election campaign, where groups of heterogeneous voters are targeted through media outlets. We discuss its effects on the implemented policy and relate it to the well-documented increase in polarization. Additionally,...
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laboratory experiment, as we observe convergence to the Nash equilibrium values at the aggregate as well as at the individual …
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of the well-known trust game in a survey experiment with 4,800 respondents in Brazil and Mexico. Our design allows to …
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This work analyses the effect of the two preference voting systems - proportional system with blocked lists of … voting schemes. …
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Governments often pursue procyclical fiscal policies, even though they reduce voter welfare. Is this because voters actually prefer procyclical policies? The analysis in this paper exploits the first individual-level evidence from an original survey of 12,000 respondents in 8 countries across...
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that fellow voters will accept particularistic benefits from poorly performing governments that keep them from voting … campaign promises, in turn, leads voters to hold low political trust. Low quality government, and in particular populism …,800 respondents in seven Latin American countries that provides support for a novel argument about populism and the quality of …
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