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Exposing Corruption : Can Electoral Competition Discipline Politicians?

Afridi, Farzana - 2016

results suggest that over-reliance on elections to discipline politicians is misplaced …

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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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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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Pay for politicians and campaign spending : evidence from the French municipal elections

Gavoille, Nicolas - In: Public choice 188 (2021) 3/4, pp. 455-477

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Electoral Competition, Voter Bias and Women in Politics

Le Barbanchon, Thomas; Sauvagnat, Julien - 2021

We quantify the implications of voter bias and electoral competition for politicians' gender composition. Unfavorable …

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Political salaries, electoral selection and the incumbency advantage : evidence from a wage reform

Palguta, Ján; Pertold, Filip - In: Journal of comparative economics : the journal of the … 49 (2021) 4, pp. 1020-1047

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Electoral competition, voter bias, and women in politics

Le Barbanchon, Thomas; Sauvagnat, Julien - In: Journal of the European Economic Association : JEEA 20 (2022) 1, pp. 352-394

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Exploring Contemporary News Media Coverage of Female Political Candidates : Issue Coverage Across Electoral Contests

Rose, Melody - 2010

Previous research indicates that women candidates may more easily gain elected office by aligning themselves with issues that the public associates favorably with women, such as health care, education, and children's and women's rights. But this strategy may be more or less successful depending...

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Estimating Candidate Valence

Kawai, Kei; Sunada, Takeaki - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We estimate valence measures for candidates running in U.S. House elections from data on vote shares. Our estimates control for endogeneity of campaign spending and sample selection of candidates due to endogenous entry. Our identification and estimation strategy builds on ideas developed for...

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

Cantoni, Enrico - 2020

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

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