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Campaigns, political mobility, and communication

Gersbach, Hans - 2009

We present a model of elections in which interest group donations allow candidates to shift policy positions. We show …

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Electoral control when policies are for sale

Farvaque, Etienne; Lagadec, Gaël - 2009

This article analyses the dynamics of electoral promises, building on an electoral competition model with endogenous policies. It extends the Grossman-Helpman (1994) model [Grossman G., Helpman E. [1994], Protection for sale, American Economic Review, 84, 4, 833-850] to include sanctions from...

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Incentive Contracts for Politicians

Liessem, Verena - 2003

The thesis studies the potential of incentive contracts for politicians using game-theoretic methods. Supplementing the election mechanism with these contracts is a new idea to make politicians more accountable. Two types of incentive contracts are considered: a) monetary incentive contracts...

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The right look: Conservative politicians look better than their voters reward it

Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2010

data on personal votes in real elections with a web survey in which 2,513 non-Finnish respondents evaluated the facial … municipal and parliamentary elections and also have a larger beauty premium in municipal, but not in parliamentary, elections …

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The right look: Conservative politicians look better and their voters reward it

Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2011

data on personal votes in real elections with a web survey in which 2,513 non-Finnish respondents evaluated the facial … municipal and parliamentary elections and that they have a larger beauty premium in municipal, but not in parliamentary …, elections. As municipal candidates are relatively unknown, the beauty-premium gap indicates that voters especially those to the …

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An agenda-setting model of electoral competition

Colomer, Josep M.; Llavador, Humberto - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 3 (2012) 1/2, pp. 73-93

government and a challenger party in opposition compete in elections by choosing the issues that will key out their campaigns …

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The Right Look: Conservative Politicians Look Better and Voters Reward It

Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2010

Australia, Finland, France, and the United States. This appearance gap gives candidates on the right an advantage in elections … 6% in the 2000-2006 U.S. Senate elections because they fielded candidates who looked more competent. These shifts are … Republicans also won nine of the 15 gubernatorial elections where looks were decisive. Using Finnish data, we also show that …

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Campaigns, Political Mobility, and Communication

Gersbach, Hans - 2011

We present a model of elections in which interest group donations allow candidates to shift policy positions. We show …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753207

Political advertising and election outcomes

Spenkuch, Jörg L.; Toniatti, David - 2016 - First Draft: February 2015, This Version: December 2015

regression discontinuity design with millions of observations suggests that advertising's impact on elections is largely due to …

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Elections, ability, and candidate honesty

Woon, Jonathan; Kanthak, Kristin - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 157 (2019), pp. 735-753

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