German state elections. We define election information shocks as deviations of actual AfD vote shares from pre-election polls …

German voters in the 2019 European election showed remarkable regional differences in their voting behavior. The Green …

election relative to an analogous impact for men who closely win or lose a state legislature election. We find that the effect …

election relative to an analogous impact for men who closely win or lose a state legislature election. We find that the effect …

Die Wahl zum Europäischen Parlament Ende Mai 2019 hat einige Entwicklungen gezeigt: Die Wahlbeteiligung ist deutlich … zwar die Frage nach der demokratischen Legitimität. Die Ergebnisse der Wahl werden aber breit akzeptiert. Wie die einzelnen … degressive proportionality. But the election results have been widely accepted. How the individual parliamentary groups actually …

and election results in political elections where non-establishment candidates are on the ballot. We report evidence from … two online field experiments conducted in the weeks preceding the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election and the 2016 Austrian … run-off election for President. The two elections are special because in the U.S. election one firmly establishment …

We develop a tractable theory to study the impact of biased media on election outcomes, voter turnout and welfare. News … elections, the former determines the election outcome, whereas the latter drives voter turnout. With a single media outlet, a … rise in media bias affects the election outcome in a non-monotonic way, and reduces voter welfare by decreasing the …

election results in India. We combine data on riots, which have been geo-coded, with electoral data on state legislature … districts. We find that riots occurring in the year preceding an election increases the vote share of the Bharatiya Janata Party … by 5 to 7 percentage points in the election. …

the endogenous variables; the federal election trend is treated as predetermined. Our results suggest that shocks in …