the mayoral election in March 2020, the Bavarian state government announced an official state of emergency with measures …

How does competition affect the entry and selection of politicians? I use data on U.S. Congressional primary and … winner of the general election. …

Politicians have multiple principals. We investigate the weights that politicians put on the revealed preferences of … substantial role in legislative decisions. We explore conflict among principals as well as heterogeneity among politicians. Our …

Taiwanese presidential election in 2016 and analyze features of successful messages with an extremely great number of likes and …

previous elections increases pre-election capital spending, on the other hand, its winning margin works in the opposite …

Deutschland (AfD), the major anti-immigrant party in the 2017 German parliamentary election. The classic theory on the political … jobs, housing and public goods. Notably, the vote distribution in the 2017 election suggests that AfD vote shares are … higher in districts with fewer foreign inhabitants. We exploit administrative data on election results and district …

an event-study approach which links election information shocks provided by official results of state-level elections in … conducted closely around state elections, we show that individual exposure to positive election information shocks significantly …