investigate the relation between issue salience and women's performance using US data on House and Senate elections. Estimates of … significantly increase the probability that women candidates win elections. …In this paper we study whether and how the belief that the gender of politicians affects their competence on different …

choices using the example of child care - a public good arguably valued by women. We hand-collect micro-data for 224 …,448 candidates running in the local council elections of 2002, 2008 and 2014 across 1,632 municipalities in the German state of …

It is often argued by politicians and reporters alike, that democratizing candidate selection procedures would lead to …. We use numerous public opinion surveys such as the CSES, and the World Values Survey to measure citizens' perceptions and …

A large theoretical and empirical literature explores whether politicians and political parties change their policy … answer empirically. We study attitudes towards the signature policies of small parties in Sweden using panel data from 290 … assigns council seats, comparing otherwise similar elections where one party either barely wins or loses an additional seat …

-fulfilling prophecies. Importantly, the more informed politicians are about public opinion, the more likely it is that populist behavior can …In their pursuit of being elected, politicians might not provide their constituents with independent viewpoints, but … just try to outguess popular opinion. Although rational voters see through such populism, candidates can not resist …