. Unfortunate diplomatic and technocratic biases in election monitoring, combined with a reluctance on the part of the responsible … dangerous time bomb of unresolved conflict which could explode in future elections. -- elections ; ethnicity ; election …

interested in: (1) Does the partisan identity of the mayor influence the voter's decision in the subsequent town council election … vote for the mayor on the result of the last council election? We rely on a regression discontinuity design focusing on … close election outcomes based on municipal level data for Germany. We find (1) that the party of the mayor can receive a …

town council election?; (2) Does this partisan identity influence in ensuing higher level elections?; and (3) Do voters … condition their vote for the mayor on the result of the last council election? We collected a unique data set for Germany in … which we link election results for different political institutions at the municipal level. To identify causal effects, we …

deal with the endogeneity of voter turnout by using election day rain as an instrumental variable. Our particular …