The 2017 U.S. Senate Special Election in Alabama, which was decided on 12 December 2017, was one of the most … this particular election provide the heretofore unexamined impact of political scandal on localism or friends …-and-neighbors voting in political contests. Based on data from the 2017 special election in Alabama, econometric results presented here …

association between these budget variables and the actual election results. …

municipal election districts. To identify causal effects, we take advantage of large nonlinearities in the function which … more votes in the next election after gaining a seat, while the anti-immigrant and far left parties lose their incumbency …

This paper inquires the following research question that “to what extent, do election years have explanatory power to … expenditures and decrease(s) taxation before the elections for re-election prospect. This paper’s arguments are twofold. First … district level from Turkish Statistical Institute library’s scanned archive documents and on incumbent candidate and party (re-)election …