avoid tax increases in election years. Our data provide three items of information: (1) when state politicians enact tax …We use new annual data on gasoline taxes and corporate income taxes from U.S. states to analyze whether politicians … laws, (2) when state politicians implement tax laws on consumers and firms, and (3) the size of tax changes. Using a …

This paper estimates the causal impact of electing criminally accused politicians and their nature of criminality on …

practice, incumbency advantage and coordination issues may lead to the (re)election of bad politicians. We ask whether these …In theory, free and fair elections can improve the selection of politicians and incentivize them to exert effort. In … elections, we find that winning an election increases candidates' chances to win the next election by 25.1 percentage points …

political selection. Overall, we conclude that voters select more competent politicians when they face uncertainty about the …

the mayoral election in March 2020, the Bavarian state government announced an official state of emergency with measures …

How does competition affect the entry and selection of politicians? I use data on U.S. Congressional primary and … winner of the general election. …

We estimate the effect of winning a mayoral election on long-run licit earnings, which plays a key role in the … an election is equal to 35,000€, or 85 percent of the annual labor and social security earnings for the average candidate … years after the election. Net of compensations for service, this effect is negative during the first ten years after the …

that direct election regimes ease the selection of competent politicians into office. …This paper investigates how direct election regimes (à la presidential democracy) affect the selection of women into … of female mayors substantially. The results are stronger in cities with a high pre-reform share of female politicians and …

We estimate the effect of winning a mayoral election on long-run licit earnings, which plays a key role in the … an election is equal to 35,000€, or 85 percent of the annual labor and social security earnings for the average candidate … years after the election. Net of compensations for service, this effect is negative during the first ten years after the …

A key tenet of representative democracy is that politicians' discourse and policies should follow voters' preferences … content of 9,000 primary and general election websites of candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives, 2002-2016, as well … opponent, as compared to the platform of the runner-up who did not qualify for the last round. We conclude that politicians …