Open ballot PR election lead to a great amount of intra-party competition. In order to get elected, candidates have to … personal vote seeking attempts of individual candidates in the 2007 national election in Switzerland using data from the … chamber elections – to empirically investigate some of Carey and Shugart's (1995) original claims about candidates' incentives …

The open-economy politics of trade presumes that elections, as a political institution, aggregate preferences of … election is unique in this regard; trade policy became a politically salient issue, and was treated as such during the … presidential election to identify the effect of electoral campaigns on the change in public support for trade in general and trade …

cannot exceed $1,100; candidates and political parties are also limited in the amount they can spend during an election …. After the election, candidates must transfer any surplus funds to a registered party association, where the money will be …

Using multi-country data from 62 elections since 1952, we show that 17% to 29% of voters make up their mind during the … after, the election. Changes in vote choice are concomitant to shifts in salient issues and beliefs about candidates, while …

The influence of corporations and interest groups on US elections is a much-debated issue. The issue became more … pronounced after the 2010 Citizens United V. Federal Election Commission US Supreme Court decision. In this study, we analyze … changing patterns of US election contributions and federal election outcomes. For our study, we used data from FEC database for …

2016 and 2018 mid-term elections. Using county-level election data, I find a significantly negative and spatially …

about the character of candidates, and this information affects voter and legislator behavior. The U.S. Federal Election … likely to retire and faced more competitive re-elections relative to the control group, an effect that is amplified among …