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Personal productivity and the likelihood of electoral success of political candidates

Epstein, Gil S. - In: European journal of political economy 16 (2000) 1, pp. 95-111

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The Right Look : Conservative Politicians Look Better and Their Voters Reward it

Berggren, Niclas - 2011

Previous research has established that good-looking political candidates win more votes. We extend this line of research by examining differences between parties on the left and on the right of the political spectrum. Our study combines data on personal votes in real elections with a web survey...

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The Right Look : Conservative Politicians Look Better and Their Voters Reward it

Berggren, Niclas - 2011

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Personalized Candidate Campaigns in Open-Ballot PR Elections

Lutz, Georg - 2010

Open ballot PR election lead to a great amount of intra-party competition. In order to get elected, candidates have to make more votes than candidates from the same party and of course be on a party list that makes at least one seat; how candidates from other parties do is irrelevant. After...

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Information and Extremism in Elections

Boleslavsky, Raphael - 2013

We model an election in which parties nominate candidates with observable policy preferences prior to a campaign that produces information about candidate quality, a characteristic independent of policy. Informative campaigns lead to greater differentiation in expected candidate quality, which...

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Elections, Information, and State-Dependent Candidate Quality

Jensen, Thomas - 2013

The quality of political candidates often depends on the current state of the world, for example because their personal characteristics are more valuable in some situations than in others. We explore the implications of state-dependent candidate quality in a model of electoral competition where...

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Elections under Biased Candidate Endorsements — An Experimental Study

Sun, Junze - 2020

We construct an election game to study the electoral impacts of biased candidate endorsements. We derive a set of testable predictions. We test these in a laboratory experiment and find that observed election outcomes and vote shares are well predicted. We find no support, however, for our...

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Politicians' Outside Earnings and Electoral Competition

Becker, Johannes - 2008

This paper deals with the impact of electoral competition on politicians' outside earnings. We propose a simple … theoretical model with politicians facing a tradeoff between allocating their time to political effort or to an alternative use … that depend on past election outcomes, we find that politicians facing low competition have substantially higher outside …

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Ambiguity and Extremism in Elections

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2010

We analyze a model in which voters are uncertain about the policy preferences of candidates. Two forces affect the probability of electoral success: proximity to the median voter and campaign contributions. First, we show how campaign contributions affect elections. Then we show how the...

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Politicians' Outside Earnings and Political Competition

Becker, Johannes - 2008

This paper deals with the impact of electoral competition on politicians' outside earnings. In our framework …, politicians face a tradeoff between allocating their time to political effort or to an alternative use generating outside earnings … that politicians facing low competition have substantially higher outside earnings …

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