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Reputation shocks and strategic responses in electoral campaigns

Poblete Cazenave, Rubén - 2021

Information affecting a candidate's reputation might have significant electoral consequences. Do candidates respond to the release of information? Using Brazilian elections and audits as an exogenous source of information, I show that both incumbent and challenger increase their campaign...

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Electoral cycle bias in the media coverage of corruption news

Le Moglie, Marco; Turati, Gilberto - 2018

corruption scandals in the Italian Regional Health Systems by two important national newspapers having opposite ideology, La … about corruption scandals involving left-wing politicians in the days right before the elections, while it reduces the … number of those about right episodes of corruption and without any political connection. Instead, for La Repubblica we do not …

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Electoral misgovernance cycles : evidence from wildfires and tax evasion in Greece

Skouras, Spyros; Christodoulakis, Nicos - In: Public choice 159 (2014) 3/4, pp. 533-559

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Electoral competition and corruption : evidence from municipality audits in Greece

Batzilis, Dimitris - In: International review of law and economics 59 (2019), pp. 13-20

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The effect of propaganda on elections : evidence from the post-Reconstruction South

Winfree, Paul - 2022

corruption. This paper analyzes new data showing that propaganda influenced election outcomes by weakening biracial political … twentieth century. Specifically, I find evidence that insinuations of public corruption motivated voters to the polls and split …

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Women legislators and economic performance

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Min, Brian; … - 2018

There has been a phenomenal global increase in the proportion of women in politics in the last two decades, but there is no evidence of how this influences economic performance. We investigate this using data on competitive elections to India's state assemblies, leveraging close elections to...

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