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The European Commission's scoreboard of macroeconomic imbalances : the impact of preferences on an early warning system ; conference paper

Knedlik, Tobias - 2013

system. It allows the preferences of the politicians involved to be analysed with regard to the two potential errors of an …

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The right look : conservative politicians look better than their voters reward it

Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2010

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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Electoral competition when candidates are better informed than voters

Jensen, Thomas - 2009

In this paper we study the functioning of representative democracy when politicians are better informed than the …

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A new approach for ranking of candidates in voting systems

Ebrahimnejad, Ali - In: Opsearch : journal of the Operational Research Society … 49 (2012) 2, pp. 103-115

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Bad government can be good politics : political reputation, negative campaigning, and strategic shirking

Fletcher, Deborah; Slutsky, Steven Myles - In: The B.E. journal of theoretical economics 10 (2010) 1, pp. 1-56

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Race, politics, and punishment

Leeson, Peter T.; Sobel, Russell S. - In: European journal of law and economics 31 (2011) 3, pp. 265-285

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Political selection and the concentration of political power

Grunewald, Andreas; Hansen, Emanuel; Pönitzsch, Gert - 2015

voters' capacity to identify and empower well-suited politicians. In our model, candidates are heterogeneous in two …

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International migration of couples

Junge, Marin; Munk, Martin D.; Poutvaara, Panu - 2015

We develop a theoretical model regarding the migration of dual-earner couples and test it in the context of international migration. Our model predicts that the probability that a couple emigrates increases with the income of the primary earner, whereas the income of the secondary earner may...

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The right look : conservative politicians look better and voters reward it

Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2015

Since good-looking politicians win more votes, a beauty advantage for politicians on the left or on the right is bound … to have political consequences. We show that politicians on the right look more beautiful in Europe, the United States … candidates and that politicians on the right benefit more from beauty in low-information elections. Evidence from real and …

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Serving the public interest

Markussen, Thomas; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2010

We present a model of political selection in which voters elect a president from a set of candidates. We assume that some of the candidates are benevolent and that all voters prefer a benevolent president, i.e. a president who serves the public interest. Yet, political selection may fail in our...

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