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"The mother of all political problems"? : On asylum seekers and elections in Germany

Tomberg, Lukas; Smith Stegen, Karen; Vance, Colin - 2019

Drawing on panel data from six elections between 1998 and 2017 in Germany, we estimate the causal effect of immigration – described by Germany’s interior minister as the "mother of all political problems" – on electoral support for the far right and the far left. Our identification...

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Incentives dominate selection : chamber-changing legislators are driven by electoral rules and voter preferences

Portmann, Marco; Stadelmann, David; Eichenberger, Reiner - 2019

The role of electoral incentives vs. selection is ideally analyzed in a setting where the same legislators are selected to decide on policies under different electoral rules and where voter preferences on policies can be precisely measured. This is the first paper to look at such a situation....

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The impact of welfare chauvinism on the results of right-wing populist voting in Germany after the refugee crisis

Bartholomae, Florian W.; Nam, Chang-woon; Rafih, Pierre - 2020

reliable indications of the occurrence of welfare-chauvinistic effects that led to the success of the AfD in the 2017 election. …

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#EleNão : economic crisis, the political gender gap, and the election of Bolsonaro

Barros, Laura; Santos Silva, Manuel - 2019 - This version: August 9, 2019

victory of far-right Jair Bolsonaro in the 2018 presidential election. Using a shiftshare approach and exploring the … confronted with economic shocks and the prospect of Bolsonaro's election, respond by rejecting his political agenda in favor of a …

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A banana republic? : the effects of inconsistencies in the counting of votes on voting behavior

Potrafke, Niklas; Rösel, Felix - 2018

second ballot of the 2016 presidential election in Austria. The ballot needed to be repeated because postal votes were … comparing election outcomes from the regular and the repeated round. The results do not show that voter turnout and postal … districts blamed the federal constitutional court for ordering a second election, but did not seem to blame local authorities. …

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Social and economic determinants of electoral behavior in Turkey

Kozal, Ozge; Karacuka, Mehmet; Haucap, Justus - In: Review of economics and political science : REPS 9 (2024) 3, pp. 233-264

Purpose In this study the authors aim to comprehensively investigate the determinants of voting behavior in Turkey, with a specific focus on the dynamics of the center-periphery debate. Mainly, the authors focus on regional voting patterns during the period that is dominated by the Justice and...

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Poverty, Partisanship and Vote Buying

Justesen, Mogens K. - 2017

this subject focuses on how party machines use vote buying at election time and whether they target partisans or swing … partisanship moderates clientelistc parties' vote buying strategies during election campaigns …

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What Happens When a Woman Wins an Election? Evidence from Close Races in Brazil

Brollo, Fernanda; Troiano, Ugo antonio - 2015

We analyze close elections between male and female mayoral candidates in Brazilian municipalities to provide novel evidence on the role of women as policymakers. Using an objective measure of corruption based on random government audits, we find that female mayors are less likely to engage in...

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Treated Politicians, Treated Voters : A Natural Experiment of Political Budget Cycles

Fukumoto, Kentaro; Horiuchi, Yusaku; Tanaka, Shoichiro - 2022

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

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Incumbency Effects in a Comparative Perspective : Evidence from Brazilian Mayoral Elections

de Magalhaes, Leandro - 2013

Incumbency advantage is a well known phenomenon in developed countries such as the US. Recent work on Brazil and India has suggested that incumbents are disadvantaged when seeking reelection in developing countries. Most of the research on developing countries has focused on estimating...

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