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 …

crime in India. We exploit the quasi-random variation in the outcome of close elections between candidates with and without …

council elections (2001-2016) in a German state, we provide evidence for a gender recontest gap among both incumbent and non …

competing in recent Czech municipal board and regional legislature elections, and conditioning on slate fixed effects, we find … on higher candidate salience in small municipalities. We also quantify the election advantage of a slate being randomly …

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 …

elections through which the poor majority can redistribute income away from the rich minority. In our simple laboratory … in two-candidate elections. In addition, in one of the treatments subjects can attempt to influence the candidates …

1993: since elections were not coordinated across cities, and previous terms were not counted in the limit, mayors …