practice, incumbency advantage and coordination issues may lead to the (re)election of bad politicians. We ask whether these … elections, we find that winning an election increases candidates' chances to win the next election by 25.1 percentage points … conclude that party coordination and voters rallying candidates who won or gained visibility in an election both contribute to …

. We find that the share of voters who state a pre-election vote intention corresponding to their final vote choice … increases by 15 percentage points in the two months preceding the election. Changes in individual vote choices mostly result …

and past election results. We isolate the impact of candidates' rankings using an RDD in French local and parliamentary … candidates and voters and of election outcomes …

content of 9,000 primary and general election websites of candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives, 2002-2016, as well …

effects are primarily driven by teenage years, and they persist but decay after the first election. They reflect both state …

trust in electoral institutions after the election, a decrease that was stronger in areas that experienced election …-related violence, and for individuals on the losing side of the election. The mobilization backfired because the IEBC promised an … high institutional capacity via a mobilization campaign can negatively affect beliefs about the fairness of the election …