town council election?; (2) Does this partisan identity influence in ensuing higher level elections?; and (3) Do voters … condition their vote for the mayor on the result of the last council election? We collected a unique data set for Germany in … which we link election results for different political institutions at the municipal level. To identify causal effects, we …

democratic experience and strong party ties. Utilizing the 1990 German Unification Election Study, I examine a natural experiment …

base - a two-wave pre- and post-election panel survey of German voters whose first wave was designed as a rolling cross … mattered in the 2005 German parliamentary election in various ways. Combining aggregate-level time-series analyses with … of the election were strongly influenced by combined party shares reported by polling news. In particular, this pertained …

The Internet provides new opportunities for political communication. How strategic are constituency candidates in …

interested in: Does the partisan identity of the mayor influence the voter's decision in the subsequent town council election … the mayor on the result of the last council election? We rely on a regression discontinuity design focusing on close … election outcomes based on municipal level data for Germany. We find that the party of the mayor can receive a bonus of 4 …