and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to … women, and its effect on winning a Congressional race is five times larger for men than women. These gaps emerge early in …

Australia, the importance of beauty in politics favors conservative parties. A related finding is that voters use beauty as a …

Italian municipal elections held from 1993 to 2011. We firstly estimate a municipal fixed effects model and show that an … increase in the average quality of candidates competing at the electoral race produces a positive impact on turnout. To handle …

Italian municipal elections held from 1993 to 2011. We firstly estimate a municipal fixed effects model and show that an … increase in the average quality of candidates competing at the electoral race produces a positive impact on turnout. To handle …

into electoral success? Second, do political parties strategically exploit the "beauty premium" when deciding on which … candidates to nominate, and, third, do elected MPs use their beauty premium to reap some independence from their party? Using the … show that plurality elections provide more scope for translating physical attractiveness into electoral success than …

into electoral success? Second, do political parties strategically exploit the "beauty premium" when deciding on which … candidates to nominate, and, third, do elected MPs use their beauty premium to reap some independence from their party? Using the … show that plurality elections provide more scope for translating physical attractiveness into electoral success than …

the actual two-party vote share across the 58 elections in our study, and their importance survives a range of controls …, including state fixed effects. In a horse race of alternative forecasting models, participants' visual forecasts significantly …