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Election systems, the "beauty premium" in politics, and the beauty of dissent

Potrafke, Niklas; Rösch, Marcus; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2020

We ask three questions. First, do election systems differ in how they translate physical attractiveness of candidates into electoral success? Second, do political parties strategically exploit the "beauty premium" when deciding on which candidates to nominate, and, third, do elected MPs use...

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Election systems, the "beauty premium" in politics, and the beauty of dissent

Potrafke, Niklas; Rösch, Marcus; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2020

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An Experiment in Candidate Selection

Casey, Katherine - 2019

Are ordinary citizens or political party leaders better positioned to select candidates? While the American primary system lets citizens choose, most democracies rely instead on party officials to appoint or nominate candidates. The consequences of these distinct design choices are unclear:...

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Smooth Politicians and Paternalistic Voters : A Theory of Large Elections

Faravelli, Marco - 2011

We propose a new game theoretic approach to modeling large elections that overcomes the "paradox of voting" in a costly voting framework, without reliance on the assumption of ad hoc preferences for voting. The key innovation that we propose is the adoption of a "smooth" policy rule under which...

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Leaders, Factions and Electoral Success

Crutzen, Benoît S. Y.; Flamand, Sabine - 2022

We model the internal game between the leader and the factions of a party, to study the effect of party leadership on electoral success. Factions are of interest or of principle. The probability of winning the election is increasing in how close the party position is to the median voter, the...

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Women’s Representation in Politics : Voter Bias, Party Bias, and Electoral Systems

Gonzalez-Eiras, Martín; Sanz, Carlos - 2018

We study how electoral systems affect the presence of women in politics using a model in which both voters and parties might have a gender bias. We apply the model to Spanish municipal elections, in which national law mandates that municipalities follow one of two different electoral systems: a...

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Do Voters Choose Better Politicians than Political Parties? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Italy

Alfano, Maria Rosaria; Baraldi, Anna Laura; Papagni, Erasmo - 2020

candidates vs proportional system with open list of candidates - on the quality of politicians. The exogenous variation in the … implement a Difference-inDifferences approach to compare the change in politicians' quality (as their education level) across … the treatment group (the Parliamentarians) and the control group (the regional councillors) of politicians before and …

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Does a district mandate matter for the behavior of politicians? : an analysis of roll-call votes and parliamentary speeches

Born, Andreas; Janssen, Aljoscha - In: European journal of political economy 71 (2022), pp. 1-28

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Political regimes, party ideological homogeneity and polarization

Castanheira, Micael; Crutzen, Benoît - 2022

We develop a model of elections in which parties choose their ideological position and the ideology of their candidates. Tighter candidate selection reduces policy uncertainty for voters. We show that weak institutional con- straints, as in a Presidential regime, induce parties to allow their...

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Recall elections : a tool of accountability? : evidence from Peru

Haman, Michael - In: Desarrollo y sociedad 87 (2021), pp. 73-111

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