economies, previous political cycle models had overlooked the influence of elections on the behavior of exchange rates. Voter …

This study examines how the economic effects of elections in rural China depend on voter heterogeneity, for which …

The belief that elections reduce rent seeking by government officials is widely held, likewise the belief that rent … seeking decreases as elections are less subject to corruption. In this paper we develop and test a model in which these … beliefs are carefully examined. Our model indicates that, while elections may provide a disincentive for rent seeking, this …

potential voters in USA elections with periods of registration. Method: SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) is the …

female and male candidates and how different candidate traits relate to success in real and hypothetical elections. We have … success in real elections better than evaluations of competence, intelligence, likability, or trustworthiness. The beauty …

reward for the federal incumbent in local elections. Alternative explanations are examined, and it is shown that the effect … municipalities, being stronger where the mayor faced more contestable elections, in capital cities of the states and in predominantly …

higher female representation appear only some years after the elections, highlighting the importance of training and …

In this study, we examine the voting behavior in Indonesian parliamentary elections from 1999 to 2014. After … preference to abstention over the parties in some elections. From the point of view of retrospective economic voting, we found …