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Economic Voting in Portuguese Municipal Elections

Martins, Rodrigo; Veiga, Francisco José - 2013

This paper analyses the impact of economic conditions on Portuguese municipal electoral outcomes. We use two extensive datasets to estimate an economic voting model which accounts for the possibility that different levels of government have different levels of responsibility for economic...

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Economic Voting in Portuguese Municipal Elections

Martins, Rodrigo; Veiga, Francisco José - 2013

This paper analyses the impact of economic conditions on Portuguese local electoral outcomes. We use two extensive datasets to estimate an economic voting model which accounts for the possibility that different levels of government have different levels of responsibility for economic outcomes...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014157000

Do elections affect immigration? : evidence from French municipalities

Schmutz, Benoît; Verdugo, Gregory - 2023

Using thirty years of municipal elections in France, we show that election results affect the share of immigrants …

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Dancing with the Populist : new parties, electoral rules and Italian municipal elections

Bordignon, Massimo; Colussi, Tommaso - 2020

This paper develops a theoretical framework that makes predictions on (a) the conditions under which a populist party decides to run and the policy position it takes and (b) voters' response under different electoral systems. We test these predictions using data on Italian municipal elections...

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When does regression discontinuity design work? : evidence from random election outcomes

Hyytinen, Ari; Meriläinen, Jaakko; Saarimaa, Tuukka; … - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 9 (2018) 2, pp. 1019-1051

We use elections data in which a large number of ties in vote counts between candidates are resolved via a lottery to study the personal incumbency advantage. We benchmark non‐experimental regression discontinuity design (RDD) estimates against the estimate produced by this experiment that...

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Winning a district election in a clientelistic society : evidence from decentralized Indonesia

Farah, Alfa - 2019

Lower-level officials often engage in clientelistic relations with the upper-level government. The nature of these relations might be determined by institutional factors such as how the lower-level officials come into their position. This paper specifically highlights the different political...

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Voting with your wallet? : municipal budget policy and election results

Baert, Stijn; Matthijs, Herman; Verdievel, Ilse - 2018

association between these budget variables and the actual election results. …

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Glass houses and friends-and-neighbors voting : an exploratory analysis of the impact of political scandal on localism

Mixon, Franklin G. - In: Economies : open access journal 6 (2018) 3, pp. 1-10

The 2017 U.S. Senate Special Election in Alabama, which was decided on 12 December 2017, was one of the most … this particular election provide the heretofore unexamined impact of political scandal on localism or friends …-and-neighbors voting in political contests. Based on data from the 2017 special election in Alabama, econometric results presented here …

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Electoral rules for mayors and incentives to pork-barrel : quasi-experimental evidence from German municipalities ; conference paper

Hessami, Zohal - 2014

state tier. This e ffect only materializes in the election year which suggests that mayors under the new electoral rule put … more e ffort into grant applications for highly visible infrastructure projects in order to increase their re-election …

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Voting, taxes and heterogeneous preferences : evidence from Swedish local elections

Mörk, Eva; Nordin, Mattias - 2016

A standard finding in the literature on political agency is that voters punish incumbents who raise taxes. Typically, only the reaction of a representative voter is considered, with the notion that all voters dislike high taxes because the revenue is, at least on the margin, spent on...

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