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Just hire your spouse! : evidence from a political scandal in Bavaria

Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - 2014

state and federal elections. We examine whether being involved in the scandal influenced re-election prospects and voter …

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Divided government versus incumbency externality effect : quasi-experimental evidence on multiple voting decisions

Ade, Florian; Freier, Ronny - 2011

town council election?; (2) Does this partisan identity influence in ensuing higher level elections?; and (3) Do voters … condition their vote for the mayor on the result of the last council election? We collected a unique data set for Germany in … which we link election results for different political institutions at the municipal level. To identify causal effects, we …

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Divided government versus incumbency externality effect : quasi-experimental evidence on multiple voting decisions

Ade, Florian; Freier, Ronny - 2011 - This Version: August 30, 2011

interested in: (1) Does the partisan identity of the mayor influence the voter's decision in the subsequent town council election … vote for the mayor on the result of the last council election? We rely on a regression discontinuity design focusing on … close election outcomes based on municipal level data for Germany. We find (1) that the party of the mayor can receive a …

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Divided Government Versus Incumbency Externality Effect : Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Multiple Voting Decisions

Ade, Florian - 2011

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Divided Government Versus Incumbency Externality Effect - Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Multiple Voting Decisions

Ade, Florian - 2012

interested in: Does the partisan identity of the mayor influence the voter's decision in the subsequent town council election … the mayor on the result of the last council election? We rely on a regression discontinuity design focusing on close … election outcomes based on municipal level data for Germany. We find that the party of the mayor can receive a bonus of 4 …

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Clientelism and governance

Bardhan, Pranab K. - 2021

Unlike much of the growing literature on political clientelism, this short paper contains mainly the author's general reflections on the broad issues of governance (or mis-governance including corruption), democracy, and state capacity that clientelism has an impact on. It then analyses how its...