parliamentary majorities in German states between 1950 and 2014 in an RD framework to show that government ideology influences the …

general election has saved Italy up to about e362 million in additional hospital care costs and e7.5 billion in values of life …We exploit a quasi-experimental setting provided by an election day with multiple polls to estimate the effect of …

empirically show the presence of policy diffusion using neighbors' election cycles as instruments for neighbors' policy adoption …. Second, we further demonstrate interactions of municipalities' election cycles with neighbors' adoption and show that they … follow neighbors' policy only during their own election timing, indicating that policy diffuses through elections. …

high-stakes election, voluntary voting, and a vaccination process halfway implemented by election day. Crucially, the roll …