data on personal votes in real elections with a web survey in which 2,513 non-Finnish respondents evaluated the facial … municipal and parliamentary elections and that they have a larger beauty premium in municipal, but not in parliamentary …, elections. As municipal candidates are relatively unknown, the beauty-premium gap indicates that voters especially those to 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 …

Australia, Finland, France, and the United States. This appearance gap gives candidates on the right an advantage in elections … 6% in the 2000-2006 U.S. Senate elections because they fielded candidates who looked more competent. These shifts are … Republicans also won nine of the 15 gubernatorial elections where looks were decisive. Using Finnish data, we also show that …

Recent research has documented that competent-looking political candidates do better in U.S. elections and that … that babyfaced political candidates are perceived as less competent and therefore fare worse in elections. We test this …

contracts, and democratic elections. An information market is used to predict the long-term performance of a policy, while …