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Winning Isn't Everything : The Impact of Presidential Campaign Appearances on Behalf of House Candidates in U.S. Midterm Elections, 1982-2006

Mellen, Rob - 2011

appearances may have positive effects on both a candidate's vote share and the level of voter turnout on election day. I conclude …

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Estimating the Incumbency Advantage in U.S. House Elections in the Presence of Strategic Retirement

Highton, Benjamin - 2010

Failure to take into account “strategic retirement” - incumbents choosing to retire rather than face difficult reelection fights - leads to inflated estimates of the incumbency advantage. The one attempt to address this issue in the context of U.S. House elections implies that much of the...

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Opinion Polls and the Stock Market : Evidence from the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election

Ejara, Demissew Diro - 2011

This paper analyzes stock market reactions to election polls. Stock markets anticipate the impact of events on future … cash flows. Current values depend on future cash flows and risk prospects. We posit that election polls are indications of … election, we hypothesize that stock market reacts negatively to the prospect of Barack Obama winning the election. We test this …

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Elections and the Quality of Public Officials : Evidence from U.S. State Courts

Lim, Claire - 2012

We investigate the influence of electoral rules and voter information in elections on voting outcomes and the quality of public officials, using new data on state court judge elections in 39 states in the U.S. from 1990 to 2010. We find, first, that voting is very partisan in partisan judicial...

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Reducing partisanship in judicial elections can improve judge quality : evidence from U.S. state supreme courts

Ash, Elliott; MacLeod, William Bentley - In: Journal of public economics 201 (2021), pp. 1-22

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Did Citizens' Preferences for Online Sources for Campaign Information Impact Learning During the 2008 U.S. General Election?

Winneg, Kenneth - 2014

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News Media Use and Knowledge About the 2006 U.S. Midterm Elections : Why Exposure Matters in Voter Learning

Wei, Ran - 2010

Examining voter learning in the 2006 US midterm elections, this study explores the relationships among motivation, media exposure, attention, elaboration, and knowledge gain in an expanded cognitive mediation model. The model characterizes voter learning from the news as a process driven by...

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Polarization and the US Electoral College

Siderius, James - 2020

candidate wins the election according to the electoral college, but loses the popular vote. We then consider how this likelihood …. We conclude that rising polarization of political beliefs leading up to the 2020 election has made these two election …

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Manufacturing and the 2016 Election : An Analysis of US Presidential Election Data

Freund, Caroline - 2017

Much of the public discourse and media analysis of the surprise outcome of the 2016 US presidential election has …

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The Voting Rights of Ex-Felons and Election Outcomes in the United States

Klumpp, Tilman - 2017

Approximately one in forty adult U.S. citizens has lost their right to vote, either temporarily or permanently, as a result of a felony conviction. Because laws restricting voting by felons and ex-felons disproportionately affect minorities, and minorities tend to vote for Democratic candidates,...

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