state tier. This e ffect only materializes in the election year which suggests that mayors under the new electoral rule put … more e ffort into grant applications for highly visible infrastructure projects in order to increase their re-election …

urban, more educated and relatively wealthier municipalities. Findings are consistent with the hypothesis that politicians …

association between these budget variables and the actual election results. …

in open-list local council elections (1997-2021) in the German state of Hesse. We exploit the March 2021 election one …

politicians' quality is positively affected by their wage and apply a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design relying on the fact …

politicians' quality is positively affected by their wage and apply a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design relying on the fact …

This paper evaluates the effects of encouraging the selection of local politicians in India via community …-based consensus, as opposed to a secret ballot election. While secret ballot elections prevent vote capture by guaranteeing voter … candidates, elected politicians, government budgets and workfare employment at the village level, I show that incentives for …

prescribes both gender quotas on candidate lists and double preference voting conditioned on gender. Using a Regression … Discontinuity Design, we estimate that the law increases the share of elected female politicians by 22 percentage points. The result … voting in promoting female empowerment in politics. …