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Making Voters Count : Evidence from Field Experiments about the Efficacy of Domestic Election Observation
Sjoberg, Fredrik M. - 2012
, however, is that voters in less than democratic states often are marginalized because of widespread election fraud. Field … election day. The results also confirm that all regimes are not equally sensitive to such interventions. For the first time new … outcome. It is suggested that when faced with monitoring, autocrats substitute election fraud with other forms of manipulation …
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Districting for a Low-Information Electorate
Elmendorf, Christopher S.; Schleicher, David - 2012
Most commentary on redistricting is concerned with fairness to groups, be they racial, political, or geographic. This Essay highlights another facet of the redistricting problem: how the configuration of districts affects the ability of low-information voters to secure responsive, accountable...
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Electoral Cycles in Tax Reforms
David, Antonio C.; Sever, Can - 2022
in tax base and rate, and for various types of taxes. We also find that the pre-election decrease in the likelihood of …
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Opinion polls, turnout and the demand for safe seats
Alabrese, Eleonora; Fetzer, Thiemo - 2024
constituencies, we find that pre-election polls significantly affect voter turnout. Non-competitive elections predicted by national …
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Elections and Policies : The Case of COVID Responses
Grechyna, Daryna - 2021
This paper analyzes the impact of foreseen political elections on the non-economic policies aimed at reducing the spread of infection and implemented all over the world during the pandemic of 2020. The policies analyzed include schools closures, stay-at-home requirements, workplace closures,...
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Follow the Leader : The Electoral Effect of the COVID-19 Economic Lockdown
Bordignon, Massimo; Franzoni, Federico; Gamalerio, Matteo - 2021
We study the effect of the COVID-19 economic lockdown on electoral outcomes using data on municipal elections in Italy. We implement a difference-in-differences approach that exploits the variation across municipalities in the share of inactive workers due to the economic lockdown introduced by...
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Did COVID-19 cost Trump the election?
Lake, James; Nie, Jun - 2021
A common narrative is that COVID-19 cost Trump re-election. We do not find supporting evidence; if anything, the … effect, our estimates imply Trump would been on the precipice of re-election by winning Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, and only …
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Electoral turnout during states of emergency and effects on incumbent vote share
Frank, Marco; Stadelmann, David; Torgler, Benno - 2020
the first and second ballot of the election, the state government announced a state of emergency with drastic measures to …
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Political selection when uncertainty is high
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal; Khasanboev, … - 2022
Do voters place their trust in tried and tested leaders when uncertainty is high or do they prefer a new slate of leaders who are arguably more competent? To study this question, we make use of hand-collected data on 402,385 candidates who competed in open-list local council elections...
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Elections and (mis)reporting of COVID-19 mortality
Kpeli, Parrendah Adwoa; Schulze, Günther G.; Zakharov, … - 2024
onset of the Coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and the asymmetric electoral schedule of presidential elections around the world …
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