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Pay for Politicians and Candidate Selection : An Empirical Analysis

Kotakorpi, Kaisa - 2009

In this paper, we estimate the effect of pay for politicians on who wants to be a politician. We take advantage of a …

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The Power of Money. The Consequences of Electing a Donor Funded Politician

Ruiz, Nelson A. - 2020

Do donor-funded politicians benefit their donors disproportionately? If so, how? This paper examines the impact of … electing donor-funded politicians using a novel dataset that uniquely links campaign donors with recipients of public contracts …-box of how politicians benefit donors, interesting patterns are found. Compared to the known findings, contracts for donors …

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Reputation shocks and strategic responses in electoral campaigns

Poblete Cazenave, Rubén - 2021

Information affecting a candidate's reputation might have significant electoral consequences. Do candidates respond to the release of information? Using Brazilian elections and audits as an exogenous source of information, I show that both incumbent and challenger increase their campaign...

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The gatekeeper's dilemma : political selection or team effort

Fiva, Jon H.; Izzo, Federica; Tukiainen, Janne - 2024

some candidates in an otherwise open list. Our theory reveals that parties' ex-ante electoral strength impacts their …

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Informative Campaigning in Multidimensional Politics : A Role of Naïve Voters

Kasamatsu, Satoshi - 2017

We construct a model in which an incumbent and a challenger decide whether to focus on policy or ability in electoral campaigning, and a media outlet then decides whether to gather news. We show that a candidate's strategy on which issue to focus on (i.e., campaign messages) can be a signal...

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Incumbent Spending and Gubernatorial Elections : An Investigation of Primary Type and Candidate Deviation

Westley, Christopher; Calcagno, Peter - 2011

In the political science and public choice literature, it has been shown that candidates (i) deviate from their median voter based upon the primary election type, and (ii) are more likely to establish policy positions that deviate from the median voter when the voting system is characterized by...

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Campaign Connections

Bazzi, Samuel; Labanca, Claudio - 2023

This paper explores the labor market returns to working on a victorious political campaign. Using unique administrative data from Brazil, we track the earnings and employment of campaign workers before and after close elections spanning nearly 20 years. We identify sizable returns to working for...

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Pay for politicians and candidate selection : an empirical analysis

Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Poutvaara, Panu - 2009

In this paper, we estimate the effect of pay for politicians on who wants to be a politician. We take advantage of a … examine cross-party differences. -- Pay for politicians ; candidate selection ; gender differences in politics …

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Informational and monetary lobbying : expert politicians, good decisions?

Felgenhauer, Mike - In: Journal of public economic theory 15 (2013) 1, pp. 125-155

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Do Campaign Donations Alter How a Politician Votes?

Bronars, Stephen G.; Lott, John R. - 2008

unresolved. By combining the campaign contributions literature with the work on politicians intrinsically valuing policy outcomes …, we offer a simple test that examines how politicians' voting patterns change when they retire and no longer face the … threat of lost campaign contributions. If contributions are causing individual politicians to vote differently, there should …

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