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The right look: Conservative politicians look better and their voters reward it
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2011
appearance of 1,357 Finnish political candidates. We find that political candidates on the right are better looking in both …
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The Right Look: Conservative Politicians Look Better and Voters Reward It
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2010
Australia, Finland, France, and the United States. This appearance gap gives candidates on the right an advantage in elections …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320237
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The right look: Conservative politicians look better than their voters reward it
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2010
appearance of 1,357 Finnish political candidates. We find that political candidates on the right are better looking in both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275022
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Storable Votes: Giving Voice to Minority Preferences without Sacrificing Efficiency
Casella, Alessandra; Palfrey, Thomas; Riezman, Raymond - In: CESifo DICE Report 05 (2007) 3, pp. 17-22
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International migration of couples
Junge, Marin; Munk, Martin D.; Poutvaara, Panu - 2015
We develop a theoretical model regarding the migration of dual-earner couples and test it in the context of international migration. Our model predicts that the probability that a couple emigrates increases with the income of the primary earner, whereas the income of the secondary earner may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374996
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The right look: Conservative politicians look better and voters reward it
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2015
Since good-looking politicians win more votes, a beauty advantage for politicians on the left or on the right is bound … to have political consequences. We show that politicians on the right look more beautiful in Europe, the United States … candidates and that politicians on the right benefit more from beauty in low-information elections. Evidence from real and …
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Beauty in Politics
Poutvaara, Panu - In: CESifo Forum 18 (2017) 1, pp. 37-43
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Party cues in elections under multilevel governance: Theory and evidence from US states
Geys, Benny; Vermeir, Jan - 2012
performance of their leaders. In this article, we analyse how party cues (i.e., politicians' party membership acting as a cue … towards their characteristics) affect voters' incomplete information about politicians in a federal setting. We first of all … show that party cues allow indirect inference regarding politicians using observed policy outcomes, alleviating the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010310737
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The Looks of a Winner: Beauty, Gender and Electoral Success
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2006
We study the role of beauty in politics. For the first time, focus is put on differences in how women and men evaluate female and male candidates and how different candidate traits relate to success in real and hypothetical elections. We have collected 16,218 assessments by 2,772 respondents of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320093
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Outside income and moral hazard: the elusive quest for good politicians
Gagliarducci, Stefano; Nannicini, Tommaso; Naticchioni, … - 2008
empirical evidence shows that bad but dedicated politicians come along with good but not fully committed politicians. There is …
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