process diverse societal interests at the local level, as well as on the ability of political candidates and politicians to … citizens. We find that, overall, the municipal election candidates’ local priorities for governance do broadly correspond to …

, and also explores how YouTube election campaigning differs from traditional television advertising. Using a sample of over … 3,000 YouTube videos from 72 parties running in 13 national-level elections, I find evidence that proportional election … systems lead to more positive election campaigns, whereas weak parties tend to produce more negative videos. I also find that …

The paper explores how politicians in established democracies respond to election outcome in terms of attitudinal … voluntary acceptance perspective adds insight about the forces that motivates politicians to consent. Politicians (and citizens … politicians that are elected to office. Indeed, given standard institutional arrangement of representative democracies, losing …

participating in Chile's 1988 plebiscite, which determined whether democracy would be reinstated after a 15-year long military ….3) percentage points in the 2017 Presidential election. These effects are robust to different specifications and distinctive to the … eligibles in other upstream elections. Since less educated voters tended to support Chile's governing left-wing coalition, we …