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Returns to office in national and local politics

Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Poutvaara, Panu; Terviö, Marko - 2016

We estimate the effect of getting elected on future income development of political candidates. We present a bootstrap approach for measuring electoral closeness, which can be used to implement a regression discontinuity design in any electoral system. We apply the method to the Finnish...

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Elections and divisiveness : theory and evidence

Ash, Elliott; Morelli, Massimo; Van Weelden, Richard - 2015

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Does remuneration affect the discipline and the selection of politicians? : evidence from pay harmonization in the European Parliament

Brändle, Thomas - In: Public choice 162 (2015) 1/2, pp. 1-24

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Political selection and the concentration of political power : conference paper

Grunewald, Andreas; Hansen, Emanuel; Pönitzsch, Gert - 2014

voters' capacity to identify and empower competent politicians. In our model, candidates are privately informed about their … motivation. In particular, full concentration of power is desirable if and only if politicians are mostly welfare-oriented. The …

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Candidate quality

Poutvaara, Panu; Takalo, Tuomas - 2003

We analyze the topical question of how the compensation of elected politicians affects the set of citizens choosing to …

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Incumbency effects in a comparative perspective : evidence from Brazilian mayoral elections

Magalhães, Leandro de - 2014

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Punching above one's weight : the case against election campaigns

Haan, Marco; Los, Bart; Onderstal, Sander; Riyanto, … - 2010

Politicians differ in their ability to implement some policy. In an election, candidates make commitments regarding the …

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The tuesday advantage of politicians endorsed by American newspapers

Leon, Fernanda Leite Lopez de - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 13 (2013) 2, pp. 865-886

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The relationship between federal budget amendments and local electoral power

Firpo, Sérgio Pinheiro; Ponczek, Vladimir; Sanfelice, … - 2014

The objectives of this paper are twofold. First, we investigate whether politicians use resources from the federal … by voters who elect politicians who assist their municipalities through federal expenditures. The main contribution of …. We focus on the geographical distribution of votes received by politicians within their electoral districts instead of …

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Voting by successive elimination and strategic candidacy

Dutta, Bhaskar; Jackson, Matthew O.; Le Breton, Michel - In: Journal of economic theory 103 (2002) 1, pp. 190-218

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