reliable indications of the occurrence of welfare-chauvinistic effects that led to the success of the AfD in the 2017 election. …

an event-study approach which links election information shocks provided by official results of state-level elections in … conducted closely around state elections, we show that individual exposure to positive election information shocks significantly …

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

district for the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), the major anti-immigrant party in the 2017 German parliamentary election … natives due to fiercer competition for jobs, housing and public goods. Notably, the vote distribution in the 2017 election … election results and district-specific features to study a potentially causal effect. As the share of foreigners in a district …

party leadership on electoral success. Factions are of interest or of principle. The probability of winning an election is …

parties allow like-minded citizens to, first, share the cost of running in a public election and, second, coordinate on a …

the surprise 2016 election of Trump to identify the effects of a shift in political power on one of the most consequential …

achieve two desirable properties: First, the overall election outcome corresponds to the popular vote. Second, most districts …