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The Looks of a Winner: Beauty, Gender, and Electoral Success
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2007
We study the role of beauty in politics using candidate photos that figured prominently in electoral campaigns. Our investigation is based on visual assessments of 1,929 Finnish political candidates from 10,011 respondents (of which 3,708 were Finnish). An increase in beauty by one standard...
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The Looks of a Winner: Beauty, Gender and Electoral Success
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2006
female and male candidates and how different candidate traits relate to success in real and hypothetical elections. We have … success in real elections better than evaluations of competence, intelligence, likability, or trustworthiness. The beauty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419547
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The Looks of a Winner: Beauty, Gender and Electoral Success
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - Ratioinstitutet - 2006
female and male candidates and how different candidate traits relate to success in real and hypothetical elections. We have … success in real elections better than evaluations of competence, intelli-gence, likability, or trustworthiness. The beauty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005642446
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The Looks of a Winner: Beauty, Gender and Electoral Success
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
female and male candidates and how different candidate traits relate to success in real and hypothetical elections. We have … success in real elections better than evaluations of competence, intelligence, likability, or trustworthiness. The beauty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700903
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Elections and the Timing of Devaluations
Stein, Ernesto H.; Streb, Jorge M. - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999
economies, previous political cycle models had overlooked the influence of elections on the behavior of exchange rates. Voter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944007
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Social Fragmentation, Public Goods and Elections: Evidence from China
Miquel, Gerard Padro-i-; Qian, Nancy; Yao, Yang - eSocialSciences - 2013
This study examines how the economic effects of elections in rural China depend on voter heterogeneity, for which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945274
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Public Investment and Re-election Prospects in Developed Countries
Katsimi, Margarita; Sarantides, Vassilis - Department of Economics, University of Sheffield - 2013
affect re-election prospects. We also find that voters disfavour politicians who create deficits during elections, while …
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Media proliferation and partisan selective exposure
Chan, Jimmy; Stone, Daniel - In: Public Choice 156 (2013) 3, pp. 467-490
The number of Internet news media outlets has skyrocketed in recent years. We analyze the effects of media proliferation on electoral outcomes assuming voters may choose news that is too partisan, from an informational perspective, i.e., engage in partisan selective exposure. We find that if...
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Candidates’ policy strategies in primary elections: does strategic voting by the primary electorate matter?
Adams, James; Merrill, Samuel - In: Public Choice 160 (2014) 1, pp. 7-24
facing two-stage elections beginning with a primary, and we compare candidates’ policy strategies in situations where primary … primary elections to select their candidates—a common dilemma for Latin American (and some European) parties. Copyright …
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Electoral misgovernance cycles: evidence from wildfires and tax evasion in Greece
Skouras, Spyros; Christodoulakis, Nicos - In: Public Choice 159 (2014) 3, pp. 533-559
We present detailed empirical evidence from Greece that around elections, misgovernance results in significant … intensify around elections: (i) attention and effort of elected officials is directed to campaigning instead of governing; and …
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