interested in: Does the partisan identity of the mayor influence the voter's decision in the subsequent town council election … the mayor on the result of the last council election? We rely on a regression discontinuity design focusing on close … election outcomes based on municipal level data for Germany. We find that the party of the mayor can receive a bonus of 4 …

tournament models to analyse elections. The main difference between tournaments in a firm and election tournaments is a …

We use voting experiments to examine the effects of different primary types on voter turnout, voter choice and election … does not impact election outcomes …

local council. To address the endogeneity related to non-random election outcomes I employ a Regression Discontinuity Design … candidate. I find that the election of an additional female candidate leads to fewer newly participating female candidates in …

country political stability.From the statistic provided by Wikipedia, the countries rare have an election threshold less than … 3% of the votes cast. In fact, the developed countries, with the advanced economies, rare have election threshold below … 5% of the votes cast.In practice, the 5% election threshold would require from a political party to gain 7.5 seats in …