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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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014177332

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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An Analysis of the Shifts in the Voter Preferences in 2009 Turkish Local Elections

Köksal, Bülent; Civan, Abdulkadir; Genç, Savaş - 2011

election results. We find that the economic crisis adversely affected Justice and Development Party (AKP) votes in Region 3 …

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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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The long-run earnings effects of winning a mayoral election

Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Cappellari, Lorenzo; … - 2023

We estimate the effect of winning a mayoral election on long-run licit earnings, which plays a key role in the … an election is equal to 35,000€, or 85 percent of the annual labor and social security earnings for the average candidate … years after the election. Net of compensations for service, this effect is negative during the first ten years after the …

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Is populism reversible? : evidence from Italian local elections during the pandemic

Bordignon, Massimo; Franzoni, Federico; Gamalerio, Matteo - 2023

We study the effect of economic insecurity on electoral outcomes using data on municipal elections in Italy. We implement a difference-in-differences approach that exploits exogenous variation across municipalities in the share of inactive workers due to the economic lockdown introduced by the...

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Candidates' Quality and Electoral Participation : Evidence from Italian Municipal Elections

De Benedetto, Marco Alberto - 2014

We analyze the impact of the quality of candidates running for a mayor position on turnout using a large data set on 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...

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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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