-list proportional election system. One more councilor employed by the public sector increases spending by about one percent. The effect … consistent with public employees having an information advantage over other politicians, and thus, being able to influence policy …

the legislature: the identity of the party that previously held a majority, and the probability density of the election …

(or 10 election periods), political dynasties have become fatter. Covering all local positions, the percentage of fat … dynasties has increased from 19% in 1988 to 29% in 2017, growing at about 1%, or around 170 positions, per election period. In …

, and also explores how YouTube election campaigning differs from traditional television advertising. Using a sample of over … 3,000 YouTube videos from 72 parties running in 13 national-level elections, I find evidence that proportional election … systems lead to more positive election campaigns, whereas weak parties tend to produce more negative videos. I also find that …

investigated by scholars, empirical findings are mixed at best. This is partly because of the non-random nature of election timing …

In this paper, we address empirically the trade-offs involved in choosing between bureaucrats and politicians. In order … counterparts (”politicians”). We evaluate how performance would change if the courts replaced majority rule with unanimity rule …

election. To ensure that raters did not recognize the candidates, we relied heavily on young subjects from Australia and New …

The paper explores how politicians in established democracies respond to election outcome in terms of attitudinal … voluntary acceptance perspective adds insight about the forces that motivates politicians to consent. Politicians (and citizens … politicians that are elected to office. Indeed, given standard institutional arrangement of representative democracies, losing …

The literature on the rational PBC suggests that politicians systematically manipulate economic and fiscal conditions … before elections to increase their chances of eelection. Most tests of this theory look for evidence of pre-election …