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Do elections affect immigration? : evidence from French municipalities

Schmutz, Benoît; Verdugo, Gregory - 2023

Using thirty years of municipal elections in France, we show that election results affect the share of immigrants …

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Economic Voting in Portuguese Municipal Elections

Martins, Rodrigo; Veiga, Francisco - 2013

This paper analyses the impact of economic conditions on Portuguese local electoral outcomes. We use two extensive datasets to estimate an economic voting model which accounts for the possibility that different levels of government have different levels of responsibility for economic outcomes...

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Economic Voting in Portuguese Municipal Elections

Martins, Rodrigo; Veiga, Francisco - 2013

This paper analyses the impact of economic conditions on Portuguese municipal electoral outcomes. We use two extensive datasets to estimate an economic voting model which accounts for the possibility that different levels of government have different levels of responsibility for economic...

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Dancing with the Populist : new parties, electoral rules and Italian municipal elections

Bordignon, Massimo; Colussi, Tommaso - 2020

This paper develops a theoretical framework that makes predictions on (a) the conditions under which a populist party decides to run and the policy position it takes and (b) voters' response under different electoral systems. We test these predictions using data on Italian municipal elections...

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Shocks and selection : how earthquakes shape local political representation

Baraldi, Anna Laura; Cantabene, Claudia; De Iudicibus, … - 2025

across election cycles and are robust to alternative specifications. We rule out competing explanations such as changes in …

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Dancing with the populist: new parties, electoral rules and Italian municipal elections

Bordignon, Massimo; Colussi, Tommaso - 2020

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Dutch Municipal Elections 1998-2018 : More Localism and Fragmentation

Gradus, Raymond - 2020

election year dummies are significant. The last result gives some indication for a welfare hypothesis as a large …

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How Much Is Your Vote? Opportunistic Business Cycles of Grant Expenditures in Indonesia’s Local Election

Chalil, Tengku Munawar - 2019

The opportunistic political cycle's theories argued that the incumbent raises the visible expenses in the election time …-buying action. The paper tests the argument by using Indonesia local election and grants spending data from 2008 to 2013. Through … treating the endogeneity of incumbency, the analysis results suggest that when the incumbent is participating in the election …

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Partisan Targeting of Inter-Governmental Transfers & State Interference in Local Elections : Evidence from Spain

Curto-Grau, Marta - 2016

We examine whether state-level incumbents discriminate in the allocation of transfers in favour of local governments controlled by co-partisans, and whether the electoral prospects of local incumbents improve when they are aligned with the state incumbent. Using a new database covering around...

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Do Voters or Politicians Choose the Outcomes of Elections? Evidence from High Stakes U.S. State Legislative Elections

Jeong, Dahyeon - 2017

the legislature: the identity of the party that previously held a majority, and the probability density of the election …

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