In Romania, the 2008 local elections were held based on a new electoral law. The main changes concerned the election of … chairpersons of county councils by uninominal voting, shifting of the general and presidential elections and the introduction of a … uninominal voting system for parliamentary elections, with a correction of the total number of seats according to the total …

In this paper incumbency effects in Federal Elections and Mayoral Elections in Germany are estimated using a quasi … parties in Germany cause an increase in vote share of 1.4%-1.7% in Federal Elections. Analyzing Mayoral Elections, the causal … visibility and popularity of mayors compared to candidates in Federal Elections. -- Regression Discontinuity ; Incumbency …

We study the effect of term limits on voter turnout in local Italian elections. Since 2014 the Italian law allows …

local elections, we find that parties use vote ranks to decide upon promotions. Moreover, we show that this primary effect …

German state elections. We define election information shocks as deviations of actual AfD vote shares from pre-election polls …

We use elections data in which a large number of ties in vote counts between candidates are resolved via a lottery to … context of close elections. …

future electoral success. We find no evidence of incumbency advantage using data on randomized elections. In contrast … narrower bandwidths aligns the results with those obtained using the randomized elections. So does the bias-correction of …. The appropriate bandwidth seems narrower in larger elections and is thus context specific …