The television channel TV3 has played a controversial role in the Catalan politics since its creation in the early …s. We find that the introduction of TV3 increased voter turnout in the 1984 Catalan parliamentary election, but it did …

field experiment that we conducted during the 2013 Moscow mayoral election, we published a newspaper criticizing the …Modern autocracies today hold elections but employ a number of tactics to control election outcomes. In response to … month prior to the election date. We find that the incumbent mayor's vote share was lower by 1.89 percentage points at the …

's 2019 federal election. These findings shed light on the role of partisan media in shaping electoral outcomes by influencing …

We construct an election game to study the electoral impacts of biased candidate endorsements. We derive a set of … testable predictions. We test these in a laboratory experiment and find that observed election outcomes and vote shares are … well predicted. We find no support, however, for our prediction that the relationship between election outcome and the …

according to the 1995 election law. We show that in the second and third weeks after the 2020 elections (held on October 9 …

investigated by scholars, empirical findings are mixed at best. This is partly because of the non-random nature of election timing … exploiting a natural experiment in Japan, where the timing of both executive and legislative elections in municipalities is fixed … case of Japan offers an intriguing exception …

municipal elections. We argue that whether or not a municipal election was held in April 2003 can be regarded as an “as … the new population just prior to April 2003 is significantly larger in treatment municipalities (with an election) than in … control ones (without an election). The estimated effects are, in some cases, decisive enough to change the electoral results …