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Cañete, Rumilda; Miquel-Florensa, Josepa; Straub, Stéphane - 2020

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Why do electors support corrupt politicians?

Ionescu, Luminiţa - In: Economics, management and financial markets 10 (2015) 4, pp. 61-68

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Is more information always better? : party cues and candidate quality in U.S. judicial elections

Lim, Claire S. H.; Snyder, James M. - In: Journal of public economics 128 (2015), pp. 107-123

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Women's representation in politics : voter bias, party bias, and electoral systems

Gonzalez-Eiras, Martín; Sanz, Carlos - 2018

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Women’s Representation in Politics : Voter Bias, Party Bias, and Electoral Systems

Gonzalez-Eiras, Martín; Sanz, Carlos - 2018

We study how electoral systems affect the presence of women in politics using a model in which both voters and parties might have a gender bias. We apply the model to Spanish municipal elections, in which national law mandates that municipalities follow one of two different electoral systems: a...

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The relationship between federal budget amendments and local electoral power

Firpo, Sergio; Ponczek, Vladimir; Sanfelice, Viviane - 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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Identifying the source of incumbency advantage through an electoral reform

Lopes da Fonseca, Mariana - 2015

This study relies on a constitutional reform introducing term limits at the local elections level in Portugal as a natural experiment to estimate incumbency advantage in mayoral elections. It stresses the distinction between partisan and personal incumbency advantage using data on six local...

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The relationship between federal budget amendments and local electoral power

Firpo, Sergio - In: Journal of development economics 116 (2015), pp. 186-198

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Quality of politicians and electoral system : evidence from a quasi-experimental design for Italian cities

De Benedetto, Marco Alberto; D'Agostino, Elena; … - In: German economic review : GER 22 (2021) 3, pp. 323-357

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Let the voters choose women

Baltrunaite, Audinga; Casarico, Alessandra; Profeta, Paola - In: Journal of public economics 180 (2019), pp. 1-25

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