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In 2005, the Democratic National Committee adopted the 50-state strategy in lieu of the strategy of focusing solely on battleground states. The rationale given for this move is that campaign expenditures are durable outlays that impact both current and future campaigns. This paper investigates...
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growth is systematically affected by the timing of elections. We cover the period from 1973-2009. Our results can be … elections, perhaps as a result of politically motivated employment schemes. 2. In ation tend to be lower in preelection periods …
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We show that a large electorate of ignorant voters can succeed in establishing high levels of electoral accountability. In our model an incumbent politician is confronted with a large number of voters who receive very noisy signals about her performance. We find that the accountability problem...
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We present a model of political selection in which voters elect a president from a set of candidates. We assume that some of the candidates are benevolent and that all voters prefer a benevolent president, i.e. a president who serves the public interest. Yet, political selection may fail in our...
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We develop a model of the incentives faced by members of parliament (MPs) when deciding whether to engage in effort for their constituencies to assess the effects of their having a criminal background. Political representatives with criminal backgrounds are considered a great problem in many...
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candidates and that politicians on the right benefit more from beauty in low-information elections. Evidence from real and … experimental elections confirms both predictions. …
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The effect of ethnic violence on electoral results provides useful insights into voter behaviour in democratic … elections and control variables on demographics and public goods provision to construct a unique panel data set for 16 large …
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This paper presents a theoretical model of rational retrospective voting, which is tested empirically on pooled cross … understanding of economic voting in Sweden. Regarding the determination of election outcomes, macroeconomic variables have been more …
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Migration contributes to the circulation of goods, knowledge, and ideas. Using community and individual-level data from Moldova, we show that the Emigration episode that started in the late 1990s strongly affected political preferences and electoral outcomes in Moldova during the following...
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Migration contributes to the circulation of goods, knowledge, and ideas. Using community and individual-level data from Moldova, we show that the emigration episode that started in the late 1990s strongly affected political preferences and electoral outcomes in Moldova during the following...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323034