In the election for President of the United States, the Electoral College is the body whose members vote for an elect …

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

the endogenous variables; the federal election trend is treated as predetermined. Our results suggest that shocks in …

an event-study approach which links election information shocks provided by official results of state-level elections in … conducted closely around state elections, we show that individual exposure to positive election information shocks significantly …

German state elections. We define election information shocks as deviations of actual AfD vote shares from pre-election polls …

district for the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), the major anti-immigrant party in the 2017 German parliamentary election … natives due to fiercer competition for jobs, housing and public goods. Notably, the vote distribution in the 2017 election … election results and district-specific features to study a potentially causal effect. As the share of foreigners in a district …