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Constituency Service and Incumbency Advantage [PDF]
British Journal of Political Science, 1991 Numerous scholars have documented a dramatic increase in incumbency advantage in US congressional elections and also state legislative elections over the past four decades. For example, Gelman and King show that incumbents in the House of Representatives now receive about twelve extra percentage points solely as a result of holding congressional office
King, Gary
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Last Minute Policies and the Incumbency Advantage [PDF]
German Economic Review, 2012 Abstract This paper models a purely informational mechanism behind the incumbency advantage. In a two-period electoral campaign with two policy issues, an incumbent and a possibly more competent challenger compete for election by voters who are heterogeneously informed about the state of the world. Due to the asymmetries in government
Manzoni, Elena, Penczynski, Stefan P.
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Competitive elections, incumbency advantage, and accountability [PDF]
Economic Theory, 2021 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Klingelhöfer, J
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Incumbency Advantage in Non-Democracies [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014 In elections that take place in a less-than-perfect democracy, incumbency advantages are different from those in mature democracies. The incumbent can prevent credible challengers from running, organize vote fraud, or even physically eliminate the main opponents. At the same time, formally winning the election does not guarantee staying in power.
Georgy Egorov, Konstantin Sonin
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Incumbency as the Major Advantage: The Electoral Advantage for Parties of Incumbent Mayors [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011 This thesis comprises four empirical papers, each devoted to a specific topic in local political economics. Paper one and two evaluate the importance of the mayor position to the future electoral success of the mayor’s party. In the first paper, the focus is on the party’s electoral outcome in subsequent mayoral elections, while the second paper is ...
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Running in Someone Else’s Shoes: The Electoral Consequences of Running as an Appointed Senator
Social Sciences, 2018 Over the past century, nearly two hundred times a governor has appointed an individual to fill a vacant Senate seat. This research seeks to understand the electoral fates of these appointed senators.
Carrie Eaves
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The Winning Party Platform: Voter Perceptions of Party Positions and Voting in Urban Africa
Africa Spectrum, 2021 Previous literature suggests that some African parties employ non-valence positional issues in their party platforms and that this practice is more prevalent in some countries than in others; however, no quantitative research has analysed the electoral ...
Eun Kyung Kim, Hye-Sung Kim
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Politik Indonesia: Indonesian Political Science Review, 2019 This article discusses the post-clientelist initiatives used by political parties in the selection of candidates within the party to determine the regent and vice regents nominated for the local election.
Caroline Paskarina +2 more
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Estimating Incumbency Effects Using Regression Discontinuity Design
Research & Politics, 2018 In recent years, research on the incumbency effect using a regression discontinuity design has flourished. Although the regression discontinuity design has allowed scholars to examine the incumbency effect in various electoral settings, previous studies ...
B. K. Song
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