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candidates and find that post-election abnormal equity returns are 3% higher for firms donating to winning candidates …
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voting when an incumbent president runs for re-election, and engage in prospective voting when he does not run. In the 2008 … American presidential election, however, voters cast their vote to Obama as a punishment to Bush administration even though the … President Bush didn't run for re-election. Previous researches also argue that if voters are disappointed with economic …
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Recent trends in judicial elections, including expensive rough-and-tumble campaigns characterized by televised attack advertising and politicized discourse, are causing advocacy groups and legal scholars to condemn the practice of electing judges. This paper addresses an important aspect of this...
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The rise of independent expenditures by outside groups in congressional elections following the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United leads to the questions about whether and to what extent outside spending actually affects the outcome of congressional elections. After an overview of...
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This paper investigates the value of firm political connections to US congressional candidates using a regression discontinuity design. In a sample of close special elections occurring at times unrelated to firm-specific economic events or broader political events, I compare the abnormal returns...
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The article discusses the peculiarities of building political communications based on the material of official Twitter accounts of Petro Poroshenko and Volodymyr Zelensky as candidates for the President of Ukraine from 31.03 to 21.04.2019. Today's politicians are actively leveraging the positive...
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spending in each election or in per capita terms, greater spending facilitates voting. We conclude, contrary to conventional …
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