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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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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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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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Candidate Ballot Information and Election Outcomes : The Czech Case

Jurajda, Stepan - 2014

on higher candidate salience in small municipalities. We also quantify the election advantage of a slate being randomly …

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Candidates' Quality and Electoral Participation : Evidence from Italian Municipal Elections

De Benedetto, Marco Alberto - 2014

We analyze the impact of the quality of candidates running for a mayor position on turnout using a large data set on Italian municipal elections held from 1993 to 2011. We firstly estimate a municipal fixed effects model and show that an increase in the average quality of candidates competing at...

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Minority Groups and Success in Election Primaries

Epstein, Gil S. - 2018

In this paper, we focus on the effect of belonging to one or more minority groups on the probability of success in primary elections. Using a unique dataset of candidates in Israeli primaries, we find that while being a new immigrant, a woman or a Muslim decreases the chances of electoral...

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Competing on Good Politicians

Galasso, Vincenzo - 2009

Is electoral competition good for political selection? To address this issue, we introduce a theoretical model in which ideological parties select candidates between party loyalists and experts, and allocate them into the electoral districts. Non-ideological voters, who care about national and...

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