́electoral prospects improve? We study this question with a natural experiment from the German federal state of Hesse. The … experiment is the abolishment of an explicit electoral threshold (the so called "five percent hurdle") for local elections in … elections, but local politicians from large mainstream parties had the ability to adjust municipal political institutions in …

' electoral prospects improve? We study this question with a natural experiment from the German federal State of Hesse. The … experiment is the abolishment of an explicit electoral threshold (the so called "five percent hurdle") for local elections in … elections, but local politicians from mainstream parties had the ability to adjust municipal political institutions in such as …

politicians' quality is positively affected by their wage and apply a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design relying on the fact …

Members of parliament (MPs) often decide on their own salaries. Voters dislike self-serving politicians, and … politicians are keen to gratify their voters. In line with the political business cycle theories, politicians thus may well delay … increased by one percent. Politicians can increase their salaries at any point of time in the legislative period: understanding …

desirability bias in self-reported party preferences. Consequently, the likelihood to reveal an AfD preference increases. We test … German state elections. We define election information shocks as deviations of actual AfD vote shares from pre-election polls …

against the estimate produced by this experiment that takes place exactly at the cutoff. The experimental estimate suggests … and statistically significant effect. Bias‐corrected RDD estimates that apply robust inference are, however, in line with …