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The iImpact of COVID-19 on voter turnout in the 2020 regional elections in Indonesia : do voters care about health risks?

Justinus, Yoshua Caesar; Dartanto, Teguh; Nasrudin, Rus'an - 2024

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Populism in the Italian municipal elections : the M5S experience

Bordignon, Massimo; Colussii, Tommaso - 2026

This paper reviews a growing body of theoretical and empirical research on Italian populism through a detailed examination of the Five Star Movement (Movimento 5 Stelle, M5S), focusing on its experience in municipal elections. Using a wide range of administrative and survey data, as well as...

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Mobility-based gerrymandering : theory and evidence

Mongrain, Steeve; Revelli, Federico; Van Ypersele, Tanguy; … - 2026

This paper models theoretically and tests empirically the hypothesis that the decision about the location of a public bad within a multi-tiered structure of government (a facility providing benefits throughout the federation but inflicting damage to the region hosting it) can be driven by...

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Mobility-based gerrymandering : theory and evidence

Mongrain, Steeve; Revelli, Federico; Van Ypersele, Tanguy; … - 2026

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Green mandates and the politics in the jungle : do leftist mayors curb Amazon deforestation?

Nishijima, Marislei; Pal, Sarmistha - 2026

This paper investigates whether left-leaning politicians are more effective than their rightleaning counterparts in reducing deforestation in the Legal Amazon in Brazil. Using data from 760 Amazon municipalities and a regression discontinuity approach based on close elections, it finds that...

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From votes to megawatts : policy outcomes of local elections

Bierl, Konrad; Eisenack, Klaus; Dulong, Angelika von; … - 2026

Do democratic elections affect policy outcomes, and how do these effects evolve over time? Existing evidence is mixed, focusing on federal elections in twoparty systems using RDDs. We study municipal elections in Germany's multiparty system, examining how electoral support for the...

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Shocks and selection : how earthquakes shape local political representation

Baraldi, Anna Laura; Cantabene, Claudia; De Iudicibus, … - 2025

This paper examines how natural disasters shape electoral preferences by analyzing the impact of earthquakes in Italy between 1990 and 2019. Using a staggered Difference-in-Differences design, we estimate that affected municipalities are more likely to elect female, more educated, and older city...

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The politician, the party, and the president : how do political scandals propagate across the party network?

Muço, Arieda - 2025

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Do firms hire politicians as directors? : evidence from close elections

Lüchinger, Simon; Schelker, Mark; Schmid, Lukas - 2025

We document an overrepresentation of politicians on corporate boards using data for Swiss federal legislators in 1931-2015. However, a close-election regression discontinuity design shows that electoral success explains at most a small part of this overrepresentation. We find small and mostly...

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Clearing the air : women in politics and air pollution

Baraldi, Anna Laura; Fosco, Giovanni - 2025

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Gender equality through turnover : quasi-experimental evidence from term limit reforms in Italy

Kansikas, Carolina; Bagues, Manuel F. - 2025

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Legislature size and council member diversity : evidence from Brazilian municipalities

Nascimento, Matheus; Schiavon, Laura de Carvalho - 2025

This paper examines the impact of marginal changes in municipal council size on the diversity of candidates and elected councilors in Brazil, focusing on age, gender, race, and educational attainment. Understanding how institutional changes affect representation is crucial for assessing the...

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Lottery-based elections, power monopolization, and urban development : the case of Swiss city-states : 1666-1794

Geweke, Jonas M.; Rost, Katja - 2025

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The transition to direct mayoral elections in clientelistic environments : causal public spending and service delivery effects

Lewis, Blane D.; Dong, Sarah Xue - 2025

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Do local elections affect the spending of intergovernmental transfers? : evidence from Germany's stimulus package of 2009

Bury, Yannick; Feld, Lars P. - 2025 - This version: October 2025

In this paper, we study whether local spending of intergovernmental grants is influenced by mayoral elections in the grant receiving municipality. We exploit the implementation of the German federal government's second economic stimulus package of 2009 (K2) in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg as...

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Do local elections affect the spending of intergovernmental transfers? : evidence from Germany’s stimulus package of 2009

Bury, Yannick; Feld, Lars P. - 2024

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An empirical analysis of invalid voting in municipal elections

Castro, Vítor; Martins, Rodrigo; Sakurai, Sergio Naruhiko - 2025

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Synchronized elections strengthen party salience : evidence from a decentralized democracy

Balasubramaniam, Vimal; Bhatiya, Apurav Yash; Das, … - 2025

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A dynamic cost of voting index : how do state election administration rules impact voter turnout and the integrity of elections?

Ferroni, Matteo F.; Milyo, Jeffrey - 2025

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The electoral consequences of the coal phase-out in Germany

Stutzmann, Sophia - 2024 - This version: April 28, 2023

Climate policies can have adverse social and economic effects on affected citizens. Against this backdrop, understanding the conditions under which electoral support or backlash to such policies occurs is crucial. In this paper, I set out to shed light on this issue by empirically analysing the...

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The effects of educated leaders on policy and politics : quasi-experimental evidence from Brazil

Bastos, Paulo; Sanchez, Cristian - 2024

We examine whether and how the educational background of political leaders matters for policy choices and outcomes. Using data on municipalities in Brazil from 2000-2008, we estimate the effects of electing a more educated leader in a regression-discontinuity design whereby policy inputs and...

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Is Populism reversible? : evidence from Italian local elections during the pandemic

Bordignon, Massimo; Franzoni, Federico; Gamalerio, Matteo - 2024

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Is populism reversible? : evidence from Italian local elections during the pandemic

Bordignon, Massimo; Franzoni, Federico; Gamalerio, Matteo - 2023

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Is Populism Reversible? Evidence From Italian Local Elections During The Pandemic

Bordignon, Massimo; Franzoni, Federico; Gamalerio, Matteo - 2023

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Why do voters elect criminal politicians?

Khemka, Abhinav - 2024

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Pre-electoral coalitions and the distribution of political power

Vallve, Rafael Hortala; Meriläinen, Jaakko; Tukiainen, … - 2024

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Local high school closures and voter turnout : evidence from East German municipalities

Foertsch, Mona - 2024

Do changes in public infrastructure impact voter turnout? After reunification numerous high schools have been closed in East Germany. Difference-in-differences estimations show that high school closures between 1992 and 2010 triggered a decline in voter turnout in the following state election,...

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Immigration shocks and shifting social group boundaries

Hessami, Zohal; Schirner, Sebastian - 2024

We study whether the arrival of a new immigrant wave changes natives' acceptance of former immigrants and their descendants. We exploit the 2015 European refugee crisis and the context of German open-list local council elections where voting for immigrant-origin candidates represents a...

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Electoral rule and public sector efficiency : some evidence from Italian municipalities

De Benedetto, Marco Alberto; Destefanis, Sergio; … - 2024

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Electoral institutions and intraparty cohesion

Matakos, Konstantinos; Savolainen, Riikka; Troumpounis, … - 2024

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The political economy of privatization of education : role of local politicians in India

Kalliyil, Muneer; Sahoo, Soham - 2024

We investigate the role of political favouritism in the private education market. Using constituency-level panel data and a close-election regression discontinuity design, we estimate the causal effect of having a politician aligned with the state ruling party on the growth of private...

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The political economy of religious spending

Vitale, Luca; Pulejo, Massimo - 2024

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Intergovernmental alignment and the electoral value of mayors : reverse coattails in an unexpected technocracy

Savu, Alexandru - 2024

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Electoral incentives to target investment in roads : evidence from Italian municipalities

Ferraresi, Massimiliano; Rizzo, Leonzio; Secomandi, Riccardo - 2024

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Can term limits accelerate women's access to top political positions? : quasi-experimental evidence from Italy

Kansikas, Carolina; Bagues, Manuel F. - 2024

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Can term limits accelerate women's access to top political positions? : quasi-experimental evidence from Italy

Kansikas, Carolina; Bagues, Manuel F. - 2024

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Drought-reliefs and partisanship

Boffa, Federico; Cavalcanti, Francisco; Fons-Rosen, … - 2024

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Drought-reliefs and Partisanship

Boffa, Federico; Fons-Rosen, Christian; Piolatto, Amedeo; … - 2022

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Gender bias in the reelection of politicians (when a crisis strikes)

Hessami, Zohal; Khasanboev, Termurbek - 2024

This paper sheds light on a neglected reason for women's underrepresentation in politics: crisis-induced gender gaps in incumbents' reelection with lasting negative effects on female representation. We use hand-collected data on 173,339 candidates in open-list local council elections (1997-2021)...

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Monotonicity anomalies in Scottish local government elections

McCune, David; Graham-Squire, Adam - 2024

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The long-run earnings effects of winning a mayoral election

Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Cappellari, Lorenzo; … - 2023

We estimate the effect of winning a mayoral election on long-run licit earnings, which plays a key role in the selection of local political leaders. We use Italian administrative social security data from 1995 to 2017 and a sharp regression discontinuity design based on close elections. Over a...

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The long-run earnings effects of winning a mayoral election

Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Cappellari, Lorenzo; … - 2023

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Do elections affect immigration? : evidence from French municipalities

Schmutz, Benoît; Verdugo, Gregory - 2023

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Do elections affect immigration? : evidence from French municipalities

Schmutz, Benoît; Verdugo, Gregory - 2023

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Do elections affect immigration? : evidence from French municipalities

Schmutz, Benoît; Verdugo, Gregory - 2023

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Electoral accountability and local support for national policies

Alabrese, Eleonora; Liberini, Federica; Porcelli, Francesco - 2023

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Policy Diffusion Through Elections

Shigeoka, Hitoshi; Watanabe, Yasutora - 2023

Staggered difference-in-differences designs are pervasive in policy evaluations but little is known about the mechanisms of policy diffusion: How and why do such policies spread across jurisdictions? In this study, we highlight the role of elections in policy diffusion in settings where...

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Policy diffusion through elections

Shigeoka, Hitoshi; Watanabe, Yasutora - 2023

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Policy Diffusion Through Elections

Shigeoka, Hitoshi; Watanabe, Yasutora - 2023

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Policy Diffusion Through Elections

Shigeoka, Hitoshi; Watanabe, Yasutora - 2023

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Pro-social backlash : the effect of far-right success on voluntary welfare provision

Pulejo, Massimo - 2023

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Reelección de autoridades locales: un análisis de su influencia sobre indicadores de bienestar distrital durante el período edil

Camacho, Diego; Vicuña, Jhonatan - 2023

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Inequality and redistribution : essays on local elections, gender and corruption in developing countries

Smid, Sina - 2023 - First edition

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Higher turnout increases incumbency advantages : evidence from mayoral elections

Frank, Marco; Stadelmann, David; Torgler, Benno - 2023

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Close elections regression discontinuity designs in multi-seat systems

Torres, Santiago - 2023

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Addressing bias in politician characteristic regression discontinuity designs

Torres, Santiago - 2023

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Pork Barrel Politics : How Spending Determines Local Election Results

Atilano-Tang, Lesley Ann; Moreno, Frede - 2023

This research investigates the intricate relationship between government spending and election outcomes in Zamboanga Peninsula (Region IX), Philippines, with a particular focus on the pervasive phenomenon of pork barrel politics. Employing a rigorous empirical approach, this paper analyzes...

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Punishing Mayors Who Fail the Test : How Do Voters Respond to Information About Educational Outcomes?

Gallego, Francisco A.; Cox, Loreto; Garcia, Maximiliano - 2023

This paper explores the electoral effects of providing information on the educational outcomes of municipal schools when the mayor is running for reelection. We designed and implemented an experiment in Chile whereby we sent 128,033 letters to voters in 400 randomly selected polling stations....

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The 2022 Syrian local elections : a leadership rooted in regime networks

2023

In the 2022 local administrative council elections, as in earlier local and parliamentary elections, the Baath Party maintained its dominant role. It put up a large number of Baathist candidates for the purpose of propaganda, organised the electoral process and controlled the results....

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From the bottom? : rank effects on political promotion and electoral outcomes in South Korea's local elections

Jung, Hoyong - 2023

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Fiscal decentralization and electoral participation : analyzing districts in Indonesia

Farah, Alfa - 2019

Many countries have adopted decentralization policies in order to strengthen democratic governance. Nevertheless, empirical literature on whether decentralization actually strengthens democratic governance is relatively limited when compared to empirical literature on the impact of...

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Fiscal decentralization and electoral participation: Analyzing districts in Indonesia

Farah, Alfa - 2019

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It Takes a Village Election : Turnover and Performance in Local Bureaucracies

Bazzi, Samuel; Hilmy, Masyhur; Marx, Benjamin M.; … - 2025

In many countries, local governments struggle with inefficiency and corruption, often perpetuated by entrenched elites. This paper explores how leadership changes affect local bureaucratic performance. Combining personnel and citizen surveys with a regression discontinuity design in a large...

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It takes a village election : turnover and performance in local bureaucracies

Bazzi, Samuel; Hilmy, Masyhur; Marx, Benjamin M.; … - 2025

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