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Incumbency, party identity and governmental lead : evidence for heterogeneous incumbency effects for Germany
Ade, Florian; Freier, Ronny; Odendahl, Christian - 2011
Do incumbents in an election have an advantage, and if so, are these advantages heterogeneous across parties or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580347
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Divided government versus incumbency externality effect : quasi-experimental evidence on multiple voting decisions
Ade, Florian; Freier, Ronny - 2011
town council election?; (2) Does this partisan identity influence in ensuing higher level elections?; and (3) Do voters … condition their vote for the mayor on the result of the last council election? We collected a unique data set for Germany in … which we link election results for different political institutions at the municipal level. To identify causal effects, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009426691
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Incumbency effects in government and opposition : evidence from Germany
Ade, Florian; Freier, Ronny; Odendahl, Christian - In: European journal of political economy 36 (2014), pp. 117-134
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011287746
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Divided government versus incumbency externality effect : quasi-experimental evidence on multiple voting decisions
Ade, Florian; Freier, Ronny - 2011 - This Version: August 30, 2011
interested in: (1) Does the partisan identity of the mayor influence the voter's decision in the subsequent town council election … vote for the mayor on the result of the last council election? We rely on a regression discontinuity design focusing on … close election outcomes based on municipal level data for Germany. We find (1) that the party of the mayor can receive a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009412375
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Divided government versus incumbency externality effect : quasi-experimental evidence on multiple voting decisions
Ade, Florian; Freier, Ronny - In: European economic review : EER 64 (2013), pp. 1-20
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010360154
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The mayor's advantage: causal evidence on incumbency effects in German mayoral elections
Freier, Ronny - In: European journal of political economy 40 (2015) 1, pp. 16-30
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011535649
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The partisan effects of voter turnout : how conservatives profit from rainy election days
Arnold, Felix; Freier, Ronny - 2015 - This version: March 23, 2015
deal with the endogeneity of voter turnout by using election day rain as an instrumental variable. Our particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010501266
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Overlapping political budget cycles in the legislative and the executive
Foremny, Dirk; Freier, Ronny; Moessinger, Marc-Daniel; … - 2014
We advance the literature on political budget cycles by testing separately for cycles in expenditures for elections in the legislative and the executive. Using municipal data, we can separately identify these cycles and account for general year effects. For the executive branch, we show that it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010437178
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Overlapping political budget cycles in the legislative and the executive
Foremny, Dirk; Freier, Ronny; Moessinger, Marc-Daniel; … - 2014
We advance the literature on political budget cycles by testing separately for cycles in expenditures for elections in the legislative and the executive. Using municipal data, we can separately identify these cycles and account for general year effects. For the executive branch, we show that it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010438016
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Divided Government Versus Incumbency Externality Effect : Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Multiple Voting Decisions
Ade, Florian - 2011
town council election?; (2) Does this partisan identity influence in ensuing higher level elections?; and (3) Do voters … condition their vote for the mayor on the result of the last council election? We collected a unique data set for Germany in … which we link election results for different political institutions at the municipal level. To identify causal effects, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124170