international peace and security. Members vote on issues of global importance and consequently receive perks - election to the UNSC … predicts, for instance, World Bank and IMF loans. But who gets elected to the UNSC? Addressing this question empirically is not … candidates while the latter ratifies them. Using an original multiple discrete choice model to analyze a dataset of 180 elections …

I examine whether elections influence perceived corruption in the public sector. Perceived corruption in the public …. The results show that the reversed CPI was about 0.4 points higher in election years than in other years, indicating that … perceived corruption in the public sector increased before elections. The effect is especially pronounced before early elections …

World Bank projects and generally find that projects that are potentially politically motivated - such as those granted to … governments holding a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council or an Executive Directorship at the World Bank … Council members with higher short-term debt, however, a negative quality rating is more likely. So we find evidence that World …

elections, we show that when time constraints are binding, bicameralism might lead to a decline in the legislator's bargaining …

expected net benefit from doing so. If this instrumental motive is relevant, then turnout should be higher in elections where …' financial flexibility to provide pork for their voters. By utilizing simultaneous elections for different offices, we identify a … positive effect of election stakes on turnout. …

threshold. Thus, the median voters' ideal policy may not obtain in contested elections if policy control is imperfect, even when …

from the right and one from the left, using panel data from 290 municipal election districts. To identify causal effects … elections where a party either barely wins or loses an additional seat. We estimate that a one seat increase for the far … incumbency advantage in the next election. Exploring possible mechanisms, we find evidence that when the anti-immigrant party …

Using matched administrative election data from Norway, we document gender-specific turnout rates by a range of socio … across but not within generations. Election turnout inequality implies that voters differ from the electorate at large along …