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Garmann, Sebastian - In: Regional studies 52 (2018) 3, pp. 444-456

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Yardstick competition, corruption, and electoral incentives

Long, Ngo Van (contributor); … - 2008

the static setting with a dynamic scenario where each incumbent politician faces an election after a finite, fixed term …

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Incumbency, party identity and governmental lead : evidence for heterogeneous incumbency effects for Germany

Ade, Florian; Freier, Ronny; Odendahl, Christian - 2011

Do incumbents in an election have an advantage, and if so, are these advantages heterogeneous across parties or … government and opposition? We first present a theoretical discussion on the possible heterogeneity of incumbency effects in a … in government. This effect is robust and shows even in state elections that are unrelated to federal elections - calling …

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Economic voting and economic revolutionizing? : the economics of incumbency changes in European democracies and revolutionary events in the Arab World

Möller, Marie - 2011

While people in democracies can vote their government out when they are discontent with its policies, those in …

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Divided government versus incumbency externality effect : quasi-experimental evidence on multiple voting decisions

Ade, Florian; Freier, Ronny - 2011

design ; municipality data ; local election results ; divided government effect ; incumbency externality effect … town council election?; (2) Does this partisan identity influence in ensuing higher level elections?; and (3) Do voters … condition their vote for the mayor on the result of the last council election? We collected a unique data set for Germany in …

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Political selection and the concentration of political power

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

concentration of power in the hands of the election winner is optimal if and only if the conflict of interest is small. …

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Divided government versus incumbency externality effect : quasi-experimental evidence on multiple voting decisions

Ade, Florian; Freier, Ronny - 2011 - This Version: August 30, 2011

preferences for divided government. -- regression discontinuity design ; municipality data ; local election results ; divided … interested in: (1) Does the partisan identity of the mayor influence the voter's decision in the subsequent town council election … vote for the mayor on the result of the last council election? We rely on a regression discontinuity design focusing on …

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Political selection and the concentration of political power : conference paper

Grunewald, Andreas; Hansen, Emanuel; Pönitzsch, Gert - 2014

This paper studies the effects of power-concentrating institutions on the quality of political selection, i.e., the voters' capacity to identify and empower competent politicians. In our model, candidates are privately informed about their abilities and are driven by office rents as well as...

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The effect of elections on economic growth : results from a natural experiment in Indonesia

Moricz, Sara; Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2014

district leaders in Indonesia were performed in a staggered manner, and decided such that the year of election is exogenous … that have not had a direct election, which more specifically is performed by using a difference-in-difference approach. Our …

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Divided Government Versus Incumbency Externality Effect : Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Multiple Voting Decisions

Ade, Florian - 2011

town council election?; (2) Does this partisan identity influence in ensuing higher level elections?; and (3) Do voters … condition their vote for the mayor on the result of the last council election? We collected a unique data set for Germany in … which we link election results for different political institutions at the municipal level. To identify causal effects, we …

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