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Women's political representation in the local governance of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan
Matloob, Tasmia; Shabbir, Malik Shahzad; Saher, Noreen - In: Review of economics and political science : REPS 6 (2021) 4, pp. 328-347
Purpose - The purpose of this study to identify the role of women in political agenda at Azad Jammu Kashmir. The political parties are always considered main gatekeepers to women's political representation. Existing scholarship highlights the significance of centralized political institutions...
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Exposing Politicians’ Ties to Criminal Organizations : The Effects of Local Government Dissolutions on Electoral Outcomes in Southern Italian Municipalities
Daniele, Gianmarco - 2015
politicians' publicly exposed ties to criminal organizations. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we find that public …
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Returns to Office in National and Local Politics
Kotakorpi, Kaisa - 2016
We estimate the effect of getting elected on future income development of political candidates. We present a bootstrap approach for measuring electoral closeness, which can be used to implement a regression discontinuity design in any electoral system. We apply the method to the Finnish...
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Tenure in Office and Public Procurement
Coviello, Decio - 2016
We study the impact of politicians' tenure in office on the outcomes of public procurement. To this purpose, we match a …
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Mafia wears out women in power : evidence from italian municipalities
Baraldi, Anna Laura; Immordino, Giovanni; Stimolo, Marco - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 193 (2022), pp. 213-236
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The workforce of clientelism : the case of local officials in the party machine
Shenoy, Ajay; Zimmermann, Laura - 2021
Local politicians can function as crucial intermediaries between voters and party bosses in a clientelistic network. We …-level election returns. Local politicians systematically misallocate resources based on party loyalty and successfully deliver votes … to their national co-partisans. Politicians are compensated for successful mobilization through a performance bonus …
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Born leaders : China's municipal party secretaries
Li, Yongle; Hu, Xiaobo - In: Applied economics letters 29 (2022) 7, pp. 626-629
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The ethical framework for local government in England : is it having any effect and why?
Cowell, Richard; Downe, James; Morgan, Karen - In: Public management review 13 (2011) 3, pp. 433-457
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Returns to Office in National and Local Politics
Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Poutvaara, Panu; Terviö, Marko - 2021
We study the returns to political office using data from Finnish parliamentary elections in 1970-2007 and municipal elections in 1996-2008. The discontinuity of electoral outcomes in individual candidate votes allows us to estimate the causal effect of being elected on subsequent income. Getting...
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