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Matter, Ulrich; Roberti, Paolo; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2019

We assess the influence of moneyed interests on legislative decisions. Our theory predicts that the vote outcome distribution and donation flows in a legislature feature a discontinuity at the approval threshold of bills if special interest groups are involved in vote buying. Testing the...

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Policy Feedback and Civic Engagement: Evidence from the Finnish Basic Income Experiment

Hirvonen, Salomo; Schafer, Jerome; Tukiainen, Janne - 2023

In many democracies, unemployed and low-income citizens are less willing to vote. Can unconditional cash transfers weaken the link between income and turnout? We study a unique experiment in Finland, which randomly assigned a sizable group of unemployed to basic income for two years (2017-19)....

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Does income transparency affect support for redistribution? Evidence from Finland's tax day

Dunaiski, Maurice; Tukiainen, Janne - 2023

This paper examines whether income transparency - the public release of citizens' income information - affects support for redistribution. We leverage a quasi-experiment in Finland, where every year on the so-called tax day, the authorities release income information on Finland's top earners to...

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Delegation and recruitment in organizations: The slippery slope to "bad" leadership

Çakır, Selcen; Matakos, Konstantinos; Tukiainen, Janne - 2022

We construct a dynamic model of two-sided sorting in labor markets with multi-dimensional agent and firm heterogeneity. We apply it to study optimal party structure and the decision of how (de)centralized candidate recruitment should be. Parties are non-unitary actors and compete at the local...

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The gatekeeper's dilemma: Political selection or team effort

Fiva, Jon H.; Izzo, Federica; Tukiainen, Janne - 2024

Political parties play a crucial gatekeeping role in elections, including controlling electoral resources, candidate recruitment, and electoral list compositions. In making these strategic choices, parties aim to encourage candidates to invest in the campaign, while also trying to secure...

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Effects of increased transparency on political divides and MP behavior: Evidence from televised question hours in the Finnish Parliament

Nieminen, Jeremias; Simola, Salla; Tukiainen, Janne - 2023

We study the causal effects of increasing the transparency of parliamentary speeches on polarization and other types of MP behavior. Our research design utilizes the 1989 introduction of TV broadcasting to those Finnish government's parliamentary question hours held on the first Thursday of...

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Political representation and the evolution of group differences within parties: Evidence from 110 years of parliamentary speech

Nieminen, Jeremias; Simola, Salla; Tukiainen, Janne - 2023

speech differences by gender. As the representation of women increased, there was also a shift in speech topics female MPs …-educated increased in the 1960s. These results suggest that descriptive representation of these groups may play a role in changing speech … patterns, and thus, in their substantive representation. …

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Personality traits and cognitive ability in political selection

Jokela, Markus; Meriläinen, Jaakko; Tukiainen, Janne; … - 2023

-offs between politician quality and descriptive representation, and illustrate that political competition may be an important …

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A century of partisanship in Finnish political speech

Simola, Salla; Nieminen, Jeremias; Tukiainen, Janne - 2023

We use novel data to describe the evolution of party differences in parliamentary speech in Finland during 1907-2018. We find a peak in left-right polarization in the 1970s, driven by the extreme left party, and co-occuring with a high prevalance of Soviet Union related phrases, perhaps...

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Who is mobilized to vote by short text messages? Evidence from a nationwide field experiment with young voters

Hirvonen, Salomo; Lassander, Maarit; Sääksvuori, Lauri; … - 2024

We conduct a large-scale randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of short text messages (SMS) as a tool to mobilize young voters, and thus, ameliorate the stubborn gap in political participation between younger and older citizens. We find that receiving an SMS reminder before...

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