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Do established parties change political institutions to disadvantage smaller, nonmainstream parties if the latters ́electoral prospects improve? We study this question with a natural experiment from the German federal state of Hesse. The experiment is the abolishment of an explicit electoral...
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1975 - 2010, and subnationally, using a new data set on subnational election results and oil production in Nigeria. Our …
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We introduce a framework to examine, both theoretically and empirically, electoral maldistricting. Maldistricting is defined as districting in pursuit of a policy at the expense of social welfare. Analysis is performed on the set of implementable (via some district map) legislatures, which are...
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voters to cast ballots weeks before Election Day. Understanding the ensuing effects of VBM on late campaign information loss … on election outcomes. We overcome this identification problem by exploiting a natural experiment, in which some precincts … distribution of ballots but before Election Day and affects the relative performance of candidates remaining in the race. Thus, we …
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