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Information versus control: the electoral consequences of polling place creation

Bowles, Jeremy; Larreguy, Horacio; Woller, Anders - 2020

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The right look : conservative politicians look better and voters reward it

Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - In: Journal of public economics 146 (2017), pp. 79-86

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How do candidates' looks affect their election chances? : looks matter and can tip the scales between the right and left

Poutvaara, Panu - 2017

eyes on beautiful politicians. As politicians on the right have been deemed more attractive in Europe, the US, and …

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Single-Issue Campaigns and Multidimensional Politics

Egorov, Georgy - 2015

, then politicians who are very competent on both issues will switch. If voters have superior information on a politician … than the other, the politicians are more likely to campaign on the more important issue. If politicians are able to … informed and better off, but has an ambiguous effect on politicians' utility. The model and the results may help understand …

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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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Signalling, Incumbency Advantage, and Optimal Reelection Thresholds

Caselli, Francesco - 2012

Much literature on political behavior treats politicians as motivated by reelection, choosing actions to signal their …. Second, voters can exploit the signalling behavior of politicians by precommitting to a higher threshold for signals received …. Raising the threshold discourages signalling effort by low quality politicians but encourages effort by high quality …

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Uganda's Presidential and Parliamentary Elections in 2021 : Media Campaigns and Political Candidate Performance

Kakuba, Sultan Juma; Mpawenimana, A.S - 2022

This article investigates the link between media political campaigns and candidate performance. The study's primary purpose was to determine whether there was a link between political candidates' media-political campaigns and their overall performance. The paper used a survey method in which...

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Do Interactions with Candidates Increase Voter Support and Participation? Experimental Evidence from Italy

Cantoni, Enrico; Pons, Vincent - 2021

We test whether politicians can use direct contact to reconnect with citizens, increase turnout, and win votes. During …

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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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Information Aggregation in Stratified Societies

Agranov, Marina; Eilat, Ran; Sonin, Konstantin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We analyze a model of political competition in which the elite forms endogenously to aggregate information and advise the uninformed median voter which candidate to choose. The median voter knows whether or not the endorsed candidate is biased toward the elites, but might still prefer the biased...

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