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Backlash in Attitudes after the Election of Extreme Political Parties

Carlsson, Magnus - 2018

from the right and one from the left, using panel data from 290 municipal election districts. To identify causal effects … incumbency advantage in the next election. Exploring possible mechanisms, we find evidence that when the anti-immigrant party … wins a marginal seat, they experience higher levels of politician turnover before the next election and receive negative …

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Dancing with the Populist : New Parties, Electoral Rules and Italian Municipal Elections

Bordignon, Massimo; Colussi, Tommaso - 2021

This paper develops a theoretical framework that makes predictions on (a) the conditions under which a populist party decides to run and the policy position it takes and (b) voters' response under different electoral systems. We test these predictions using data on Italian municipal elections...

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Job Loss Fears and (Extremist) Party Identification : First Evidence from Panel Data

Geishecker, Ingo - 2012

There is a large body of literature analyzing the relationship between objective economic conditions and voting behavior, but there is very little evidence of how perceived economic insecurity impacts on political preferences. Using seventeen years of household panel data from the German...

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Demand for Redistribution, Support for the Welfare State, and Party Identification in Austria

Kuhn, Andreas - 2009

This paper describes subjective wage inequality and the demand for redistribution in Austria using individuals' estimates of occupational wages from the International Social Survey Program. Although these estimates differ widely across individuals, the data clearly show that most individuals...

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Immigration to the U.S : A Problem for the Republicans or the Democrats?

Mayda, Anna Maria - 2016

Survey merged with election data – and addresses the endogeneity of immigrant flows using a novel set of instruments. On … average across election types, immigration to the U.S. has a significant and negative impact on the Republican vote share …

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Voting and Political Participation in the Aftermath of the Hiv/Aids Epidemic

Mansour, Hani - 2020

This is the first study to examine the effect of experiencing a widespread, deadly epidemic on voting behavior. Using data on elections to the U.S House of Representatives and leveraging cross-district variation in HIV/AIDS mortality during the period 1983-1987, we document the effects of the...

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The Effect of Far Right Parties on the Location Choice of Immigrants : Evidence from Lega Nord Mayors

Bracco, Emanuele - 2017

narrow margins of victory in a Regression Discontinuity framework. The election of Lega Nord mayor discourages immigrants …

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Children of Communism : The Former Party Membership and Demand for Redistribution

Libman, Alexander; Popova, Olga - 2022

The paper looks at the persistence of egalitarian norms in post-Communist societies by focusing on the former members of the Communist parties in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Russia and their children. Using the individual-level survey data, we show that there are striking differences...

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When Criminality Begets Crime : The Role of Elected Politicians in India

Prakash, Nishith; Sahoo, Soham; Saraswat, Deepak; … - 2022

This paper estimates the causal impact of electing criminally accused politicians and their nature of criminality on crime in India. We exploit the quasi-random variation in the outcome of close elections between candidates with and without criminal accusations to instrument the share of...

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The Gender Recontest Gap in Elections

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal - 2022

This paper documents an important but mostly overlooked reason for female underrepresentation in politics: gender gaps in the recontest likelihood of candidates. Using hand-collected data on 116,185 candidates in four consecutive local council elections (2001-2016) in a German state, we provide...

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