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The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the role of mayor's characteristics (education, experience and gender) on fiscal indicators of Brazilian municipalities. We use regression discontinuity and the outcomes of close elections to identify causal effects for 2000, 2004 and 2008. We find...
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Kein Politikfeld ist den Bürgerinnen und Bürgern so nahe wie die kommunale Ebene. In der Europäischen Union (EU), im Bund und auf Landesebene wird die "grosse Politik" gemacht, in der Gemeinde hingegen wird sie konkret umgesetzt (und dort muss sie oft auch bezahlt werden). Die Beispiele sind...
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Profile: Pearl Bernstein: A Woman in New York Politics -- Precedents -- Part 1: At the Margins -- Negotiating Partisanship -- Sustaining Feminist Progressivism -- Part 2: Moving toward the Center -- Scandal in the Courts -- Fallout -- The Women of the Administration -- The Election of 1937 and...
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Do young politicians prioritize other types of municipal spending than old politicians? We study this question using …
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In this paper, we examine the extent to which political parties in a strong-party system hold individual politicians to …
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