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How Do Interest Groups Influence Elections? Evidence from British Trade Unions 1900-2019

Fouirnaies, Alexander - 2021

century. Yet little is known about the electoral consequences of these sponsorship arrangements. I study how union sponsorship …, I collect new data on universe of union-sponsored candidates, and new data on all parliamentary candidates and their … nominations and general elections. The results show that attaining a union sponsorship increases the probability that a candidate …

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Reverse Revolving Doors : The Influence of Interest Groups on Legislative Voting

Alquezar-Yus, Miguel; Amer-Mestre, Josep - 2021

This paper studies how former interest groups’ employees turned politicians (who we label as lobbyist legislators) influence the voting behavior of their colleague legislators. Using the alphabetic allocation of seats in the European Parliament and detailed individual résumé information, we...

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Group Size and Political Representation Under Alternate Electoral Systems

Chaturvedi, Sugat - 2018

We examine the effect of group size of minorities on their representation in national government under majoritarian (MR) and proportional (PR) electoral systems. We first establish a robust empirical regularity using an ethnicity-country level panel data comprising 438 ethno-country minority...

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Works councils and workers' party preferences in Germany

Jirjahn, Uwe; Thi Xuan Thu Le - 2023

Research on the consequences of works councils has been dominated by economic aspects. Our study provides evidence that works councils have nonfinancial consequences for civic society that go beyond the narrow boundaries of the workplace. Using panel data from a large sample of male workers, the...

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Works councils and workers' party preferences in Germany

Jirjahn, Uwe; Thi Xuan Thu Le - 2023

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Works councils and workers' party preferences in Germany

Jirjahn, Uwe; Thi Xuan Thu Le - 2023

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(Dis)honesty and the value of transparency for campaign promises

Lang, Matthias; Schudy, Simeon - 2023

Promise competition is prevalent in many economic environments, but promise keeping is often difficult to observe. We study the value of transparency for promise competition and ask whether promises still offer an opportunity to honor future obligations when outcomes do not allow for observing...

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Voters’ Commitment Problem and Welfare-Program Reforms

Hollanders, David - 2009

This paper proposes that reforms by vote-seeking governments and the existence of reform-adverse voters are logically compatible. This results from a commitment problem on the part of voters. Due to economic voting voters cannot credibly commit to reelect a non-reforming government during a...

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The beauty premium of politicians in office

Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas; Wochner, Timo - 2023

The beauty premium in politics shows that attractive politicians are more likely to get elected to office than less attractive politicians, but little is known about whether beauty also shapes the behavior of members of parliament (MPs) once in office. We use newly collected data on the...

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How do voters respond to information on self-serving elite behaviour? : evidence from a randomized survey experiment in Tanzania

Kolstad, Ivar; Wiig, Arne - 2018

Does self-serving elite behaviour make citizens more politically active? This paper presents the results of a randomized field experiment where voters in Tanzania were given information about elite use of tax havens. Information provided in a neutral form had no effect on voting intentions....

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