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The Looks of a Winner: Beauty, Gender and Electoral Success

Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2006

female and male candidates and how different candidate traits relate to success in real and hypothetical elections. We have … success in real elections better than evaluations of competence, intelligence, likability, or trustworthiness. The beauty …

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Selfish and Prospective: Theory and Evidence of Pocketbook Voting

Elinder, Mikael; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2008

We present and test a theory of prospective and retrospective pocketbook voting. Focusing on two large reforms in Sweden, we establish a causal chain from policies to sizeable individual gains and losses and then to voting. The Social Democrats proposed budget cuts affecting parents with young...

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The Right Look: Conservative Politicians Look Better and Voters Reward It

Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2010

Australia, Finland, France, and the United States. This appearance gap gives candidates on the right an advantage in elections … 6% in the 2000-2006 U.S. Senate elections because they fielded candidates who looked more competent. These shifts are … Republicans also won nine of the 15 gubernatorial elections where looks were decisive. Using Finnish data, we also show that …

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Faces of Politicians: Babyfacedness Predicts Inferred Competence but Not Electoral Success

Poutvaara, Panu; Jordahl, Henrik; Berggren, Niclas - 2009

Recent research has documented that competent-looking political candidates do better in U.S. elections and that … that babyfaced political candidates are perceived as less competent and therefore fare worse in elections. We test this …

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Correcting Mistakes: Cognitive Dissonance and Political Attitudes in Sweden and the United States

Elinder, Mikael - 2009

just before elections, when they are highly predictive of voting. In contrast to earlier studies I find no effect of voting …

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Wind power approval, decentralization, and NIMBYism: Evidence from the Swedish Greens

Lundin, Erik - 2023

Green parties are commonly seen as strong proponents of wind power. This paper presents an alternative view, examining data from the highly decentralized institutional setup in Sweden where approval of wind power applications is delegated to local governments. I demonstrate that the approval...

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Political Rents in a Non-Corrupt Democracy

Svaleryd, Helena; Vlachos, Jonas - 2007

A fundamental problem in all political systems is that the people in power may extract rents to the detriment of the general public. In a democracy, electoral competition and information provided by the media may keep such rent extraction at bay. We develop a simple model where rents are...

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Merged Municipalities, Higher Debt: On Free-riding and the Common Pool Problem in Politics

Jordahl, Henrik; Liang, Che-Yuan - 2006

We use the 1952 Swedish municipal amalgamation reform to study free-riding and the common pool problem in politics. We expect municipalities that were affected by the reform to increase their debt in anticipation of a merger, and this effect to be larger if they were merged with many other...

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Bargaining over a New Welfare State

Bonatti, Alessandro; Thomsson, Kaj - 2007

The goal of this paper is twofold: First, to develop an estimable model of legislative politics in the US Congress, second, to provide a greater understanding of the objectives behind the New Deal. In the theoretical model, the distribution of federal funds across regions of the country is the...

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Public and Private Welfare State Institutions: A Formal Theory of American Exceptionalism

Thomsson, Kaj - 2010

I construct a model of public policy development, and use the model to explain why the United States has a comparatively small public sector, but instead a large private welfare state with employment-based benefits. The key factors are politically organized firms and labor unions. These interest...

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