Hyytinen, Ari; Meriläinen, Jaakko; Saarimaa, Tuukka; … - 2014
We use data for 198121 candidates and 1351 random election outcomes to estimate the effect of incumbency status on … future electoral success. We find no evidence of incumbency advantage using data on randomized elections. In contrast … narrower bandwidths aligns the results with those obtained using the randomized elections. So does the bias-correction of …