previous elections increases pre-election capital spending, on the other hand, its winning margin works in the opposite … share of capital spending before elections. Leftist governments tend to attract votes by increasing current expenditures …

This paper investigates the occurrence and patterns of economic voting in the 2006 election for the Chamber of Deputies …-based economic voting: other things equal, a 1 percentage point rise in the unemployment rate in the voter's region increases their … probability of voting for the leading incumbent socialist party on average by 0.8 percentage points and decreases their …

In Romania, the 2008 local elections were held based on a new electoral law. The main changes concerned the election of … chairpersons of county councils by uninominal voting, shifting of the general and presidential elections and the introduction of a … uninominal voting system for parliamentary elections, with a correction of the total number of seats according to the total …

victory of far-right Jair Bolsonaro in the 2018 presidential election. Using a shiftshare approach and exploring the … confronted with economic shocks and the prospect of Bolsonaro's election, respond by rejecting his political agenda in favor of a …