they arrive to vote. Using raters chosen to be representative of the electorate, we assess the beauty of political … candidates from major political parties, and then estimate the effect of beauty on voteshare for candidates in the 2004 federal … election. Beautiful candidates are indeed more likely to be elected, with a one standard deviation increase in beauty …

candidates and that politicians on the right benefit more from beauty in low-information elections. Evidence from real and …Since good-looking politicians win more votes, a beauty advantage for politicians on the left or on the right is bound … redistribution. Accordingly, our model predicts that voters use beauty as a cue for conservatism when they do not know much about …

success in real elections better than evaluations of competence, intelligence, likability, or trustworthiness. The beauty …We study the role of beauty in politics. For the first time, focus is put on differences in how women and men evaluate … female and male candidates and how different candidate traits relate to success in real and hypothetical elections. We have …

We study the role of beauty in politics using candidate photos that figured prominently in electoral campaigns. Our … Finnish). An increase in beauty by one standard deviation is associated with an increase of 17-20 percent in the number of …

and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to … women, and its effect on winning a Congressional race is five times larger for men than women. These gaps emerge early in …

This paper explores the racial differences in politicians’ persistence in elections. Empirical data from California … city council elections and a close election regression dis- continuity design (CERDD) suggest that losing an election …

Australia, the importance of beauty in politics favors conservative parties. A related finding is that voters use beauty as a …