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Natural Disasters, Moral Hazard, and Special Interests in Congress
Kaplan, Carol - 2019
We exploit the precise timing of natural disasters to provide empirical evidence on the connection between electoral accountability and politicians’ support for special interests. We show that, in the immediate aftermath of a disaster, the evening news substantially reduce their coverage of...
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Polarization in Parliamentary Speach
Fiva, Jon H.; Nedregård, Oda; Øien, Henning - 2021
-and-file? We investigate this question using legislative speech from the Norwegian Parliament and recently developed techniques for …
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Elections and Policies : Evidence from the COVID Pandemic
Grechyna, Daryna - 2023
were from election dates. The gradual relaxation of “lockdown style” restrictions ahead of the elections was driven by …
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Vote Buying in the US Congress
Matter, Ulrich - 2019
We assess the influence of moneyed interests on legislative decisions. Our theory predicts that the vote outcome distribution and donation flows in a legislature feature a discontinuity at the approval threshold of bills if special interest groups are involved in vote buying. Testing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861433
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Gender Differences in Political Career Progression : Evidence from U.S. Elections
Brown, Ryan - 2019
election relative to an analogous impact for men who closely win or lose a state legislature election. We find that the effect …
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Competitively Elected Women as Policy Makers
Hessami, Zohal - 2020
While still far from parity, female representation in politics has continuously increased over the last two decades worldwide. In light of this development, we analyze whether higher female representation has substantive effects on policy choices using the example of child care – a public good...
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Moral Hazard in Electoral Teams
Cox, Gary W. - 2020
parliamentary candidates' use of mass and social media during the 2017 election, we find clear support for this prediction. As their …
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Measuring the Competitiveness of Elections
Cox, Gary W. - 2019
The concept of electoral competition plays a central role in many subfields of political science, but no consensus exists on how to measure it. One key challenge is how to conceptualize and measure electoral competitiveness at the district level across alternative electoral systems. Recent...
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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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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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