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Costs of change, political polarization, and re-election hurdles
Gersbach, Hans; Muller, Philippe; Tejada, Oriol - 2015 - This version: August 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409981
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Elections and environmental quality
Stef, Nicolae; Jabeur, Sami Ben - In: Environmental and resource economics 84 (2023) 2, pp. 593-625
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014228026
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An Electoral Model of Political Dynasties
Zheng, Bingyong - 2017
In this paper we propose an electoral model that studies the interaction between the distribution of voters ideal policies and the success of dynastic politicians. Electoral success of politicians depends on their ability to implement better policies for the voters because campaign promises are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968050
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Metube : Politicians, Youtube, and Election Campaigns in Longstanding Democracies
Salmond, Robert - 2014
3,000 YouTube videos from 72 parties running in 13 national-level elections, I find evidence that proportional election …, and also explores how YouTube election campaigning differs from traditional television advertising. Using a sample of over … systems lead to more positive election campaigns, whereas weak parties tend to produce more negative videos. I also find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014178265
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Why Politicians don't Protest Elections -- Losers' Consent in Established Democracies
Esaiasson, Peter - 2009
The paper explores how politicians in established democracies respond to election outcome in terms of attitudinal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014205068
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Competition, benchmarking, and electoral success : evidence from 69 years of the German Bundestag
Frank, Marco; Stadelmann, David - In: European journal of political economy 77 (2023), pp. 1-18
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014266586
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Political selection and the concentration of political power
Grunewald, Andreas; Hansen, Emanuel; Pönitzsch, Gert - 2015
concentration of power in the hands of the election winner is optimal if and only if the conflict of interest is small. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430775
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On ignorant voters and busy politicians
Aytimur, R. Emre; Bruns, Christian - 2015
We show that a large electorate of ignorant voters can succeed in establishing high levels of electoral accountability. In our model an incumbent politician is confronted with a large number of voters who receive very noisy signals about her performance. We find that the accountability problem...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011287647
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Reputation shocks and strategic responses in electoral campaigns
Poblete Cazenave, Rubén - 2021
the release of information? Using Brazilian elections and audits as an exogenous source of information, I show that both … competitiveness of elections and, therefore, candidates' spending. Only information disclosed prior to electoral campaigns impacts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012545128
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Pork barrel politics and electoral returns at the local level
Spáč, Peter - In: Public choice 188 (2021) 3/4, pp. 479-501
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012619682