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assembly. Since 2005, however, they have had to compete in an open election where voters directly choose their preferred leader …
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election affects their performance. This study uses 3,716 firm-year observations for firms listed on the Indonesian Stock … parties involved in the presidential election in the past three elections. Due to the complexity of the data collection, this … excellent financial performance of SOEs disappears around the election period. It indicates that being a board member of state …
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results of the system GMM revealed that the fiscal deficit is significantly large in election years and the deficit spending … spills into the year after the election, though not as high as in the election year. We could not, however, find a … significant effect in the pre-election year. In addition, we found evidence suggesting that though democracy significantly lowers …
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Purpose In this study the authors aim to comprehensively investigate the determinants of voting behavior in Turkey, with a specific focus on the dynamics of the center-periphery debate. Mainly, the authors focus on regional voting patterns during the period that is dominated by the Justice and...
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Using a regression discontinuity design and primary elections to select Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) mayoral candidates as a case study, this paper investigates the causal link between primary elections and electoral outcomes. The results suggest that selecting the PSOE’s mayoral candidate...
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In this contribution, the political success of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in the German federal election of … significantly better election results for the AfD. …
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effect of exposure to immigration on election outcomes in South Africa. Our analysis is based on municipality panel data and … local public services as well as ethnic diversity and cultural factors influence how immigration affects election outcomes … election results even in contexts where there is no single issue anti-migrant party. …
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The modern Condorcet jury theorem states that under weak conditions, when voters have common interests, elections will aggregate information when the population is large, in any equilibrium. Here, we study the performance of large elections with population uncertainty. We find that the modern...
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Evidence that information campaigns help voters select better politicians is mixed. We propose that comparative performance information and public dissemination may moderate information's effects on electoral accountability, by respectively helping voters to identify malfeasance incumbent...
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