Presidential election in Colombia. Data from roughly 2.000 individuals suggest that our treatments enhance critical thinking …

estimate the effects of these protests on congressional election outcomes. In the South, we find that PPC protests led to …

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 …

Analyses of the effects of election outcomes on the economy have been hampered by the problem that economic outcomes … exogenous changes in expectations about the likely winner during Election Day. Analyzing high frequency financial fluctuations … following the release of flawed exit poll data on Election Day 2004, and then during the vote count, we find that markets …

weak. One explanation for the failure to uncover the expected relationship between federal spending and election outcomes …

This paper examines the relationship between the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE) and election polls during the 1988 … Canadian General Election campaign. Two hypotheses are investigated: first, did polls influence the TSE, and secondly, if so …