Does the length of time passing between elections and the announcement of elections results increase the risk of post-election … violence? The declaration of official election results is a crucial moment in the electoral cycle. When electoral management … bodies (EMBs) take longer than expected to announce official election results, it can signal to the opposition that the …

was used to look at overall government spending and income, and their parts, to find budget patterns during election …

discretionary transfers increase during federal election periods. While swing states consistently receive higher discretionary … transfers due to their electoral competitiveness, the election period increase is larger for non-swing states. The intuition is … transfers are significantly higher in federal election periods, swing states receive more discretionary transfers in non-election …

where women narrowly won the election with those where men narrowly won. This strategy allows us to identify the causal … effect of a woman winning the mayoral election. We find that, compared to male mayors, female mayors significantly reduce … greenhouse gas emissions and deforestation in the municipalities with Amazon biome. Specifically, when a woman wins the election …