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Do voters or politicians choose the outcomes of elections? : evidence from high-stakes U.S. state legislative elections

Jeong, Dahyeon; Shenoy, Ajay - 2017

We study whether political parties exert precise control over the outcomes of legislative elections. We test for discontinuities in two outcomes that, in the absence of precise control, should be smooth at the threshold that determines control of the legislature: the identity of the party that...

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Political economy of mass media : public good, news and voting behaviour

Scagliusi, Cosimo - 2010

paper I focus on the role of media as "watchdog". In an agency relationship between politician and citizens, media perform … the incumbent politician is channelled through mass media only. This work investigates how citizen's voting decision and … collusion between media and politicians change if two pieces of information about the politician are available: media …

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Do criminal representatives hinder or improve constituency outcomes? : evidence from India

Prakash, Nishith; Rockmore, Marc; Uppal, Yogesh - 2014

The recent increase in the number of criminally accused politicians elected to state assemblies has caused much furor in India. Despite the potentially important consequences and the widely divergent views, the implications of their elections to state legislative assemblies on constituency-level...

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German MPs' outside jobs and their repercussions on parliamentary effort

Arnold, Felix - 2013 - This version: December 2, 2013

It is a longstanding debate whether members of parliament (MPs) should be allowed to follow sideline jobs in addition to their mandate. Critics claim that politicians already face binding time constraints and that moonlighting might lead to a neglect of inner-parliamentary duties. The purpose of...

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Campaign Connections

Bazzi, Samuel; Labanca, Claudio - 2023

This paper explores the labor market returns to working on a victorious political campaign. Using unique administrative data from Brazil, we track the earnings and employment of campaign workers before and after close elections spanning nearly 20 years. We identify sizable returns to working for...

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The Power of Money. The Consequences of Electing a Donor Funded Politician

Ruiz, Nelson A. - 2020

-funded politician more than doubles the probability of donors receiving contracts. Using detailed contracting data to open the black …

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Political Action Committee Donations to Incumbent Senators; a Corruption Motive

Flaxman, Brian - 2019

This paper utilizes six-year Senate terms and two-year reporting periods to analyze if Political Action Committees are using their donations to influence the actions of sitting Senators as opposed to simply trying to get those with favorable policy views re-elected. Senators that are early in...

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Feigning Politicians

Lee, Barton E. - 2020

more likely to occur when the politician's preferred agenda is close to the status-quo or when the politician is an …

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Can Good Politicians Compensate for Bad Institutions? Evidence from an Original Survey of Italian Mayors

Carreri, Maria - 2019

Can competent political leaders bring significant policy changes to communities otherwise doomed by “bad” informal institutions? This question has remained unanswered due to the lack of a convincing measure of politicians' competence. I develop a novel survey technique to measure the...

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The Effects of Bureaucracy on Political Accountability and Electoral Selection

Yazaki, Yukihiro - 2016

This paper examines how bureaucracy affects political accountability and electoral selection, using a three-tier political agency model with voters, politicians and bureaucrats. In the model's hierarchy, politicians are constrained by election while bureaucrats are controlled by the budget....

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