mayoral candidates just prior to municipal elections. It left voters more knowledgeable about candidates' proposed policies …

and bottlenecks of the method that should be taken into account when preparing elections. …

participation on the one hand and elections as a specific feature of representation on the other. We then conclude with a summary of …

This paper studies the impact of campaign spending on votes in French legislative elections. We exploit the political … augmented. We have data on two consecutive elections (one before and one after the reforms) and focus on candidates who competed … in both of them. We find that the difference in candidates’ campaign expenses across elections is strongly affected by …

firm owners are optimistic regarding their expected business development before state elections. After state elections … optimistic prior to state elections because politicians promised individual policies to gratify the firms’ needs during election … times. Firms might be disappointed after elections as the promises made during election campaigns by politicians turn out to …

periods and holds elections at the beginning of each period; one vote is sufficient for admission, and voters can support as …

Party performance in state and federal elections is highly interdependent. Federal elections impact regional voting …