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Do the Advantages of Incumbency Advantage Incumbents?

The Journal of Politics, 2009
We develop a model that calls into question whether some key sources of incumbency advantage frequently cited in the empirical and theoretical literature are, in fact, beneficial to incumbents. Our results show that increases in ostensible benefits of incumbency associated with these sources make it difficult for voters to differentiate incumbents of ...
Sanford C. Gordon, Dimitri Landa
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Is Incumbency Advantage Gendered?

Legislative Studies Quarterly, 2022
Do incumbents have an electoral advantage and if so, do these advantages differ across gender? In this study, I estimate the electoral advantages enjoyed by incumbents in 10 Canadian federal elections, across 3059 ridings, from 1990 to 2021. Using a regression discontinuity design, I compare men and women who have very narrowly won or lost elections on
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You just made it: Individual incumbency advantage under Proportional Representation

Electoral Studies, 2016
Using close election outcomes, we identify a personal effect of incumbency on the probability of seeking election, and seeking and winning office in subsequent elections for elected officials in an Open List Proportional System.
Jens Olav Dahlgaard
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The Return of the Incumbents: the Nature of the Incumbency Advantage

Western Political Quarterly, 1983
E OF THE most elementary facts of political life in America is that incumbent members of the House of Representatives are seldom defeated for reelection. Though this fact is commonly acknowledged, there is little agreement as to the reasons for this phenomenon. No doubt a major reason for the success of incumbents is simple inertia.
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Incumbency advantages in the Canadian Parliament [PDF]

Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, 2012
Abstract We apply a regression discontinuity approach to determine incumbency advantages in the Canadian Parliament, finding that incumbents enjoy a 9.4–11.2% increased probability of winning over non‐incumbents. Owing to the presence of multiple parties, an incumbency advantage in terms of vote share does not always translate to an increased ...
Chad Kendall, Marie Rekkas
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The Global Incumbency Advantage

SSRN Electronic Journal
This paper explores the global incumbency advantage. We first show that existing subnational estimates of the incumbency advantage correlate positively with GDP per capita and democratic quality, and negatively with corruption across countries. Building on this meta-analysis, we then consider all presidential and parliamentary elections held since 1945
Raphaël Descamps, Benjamin Marx, Vincent Pons, Vincent Rollet   +3 more
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Bringing the incumbency advantage into question for proportional representation

Electoral Studies, 2015
The literature largely neglects whether individual politicians or political parties in proportional representation enjoy a similar incumbency advantage to the established democracies with SMD. We suggest that institutional settings provide incentives for
Mert Moral, H Ege Özen, Efe Tokdemir
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Decision Ambiguity and Incumbent Brand Advantage

Journal of Consumer Research, 1995
This article examines the role of decision ambiguity in judgments that consumers make about an incumbent (the brand a consumer currently uses) versus an attack brand (a new, superior competitor). It is hypothesized that decision ambiguity creates an advantage for the incumbent. A conceptualization of decision ambiguity is offered. In three experiments,
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Increased Incumbency Advantage in the House

The Journal of Politics, 1981
T HE DECLINE IN THE NUMBER of marginal congressional districts in the 1960s sparked a widespread interest in the electoral performance of incumbents. Since its inception, the literature has been characterized by two traits: the universal agreement that the reelection margins of incumbents are responsible for the declining number of marginal districts ...
John R. Alford, John R. Hibbing
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Evidence of a Local Incumbency Advantage

Legislative Studies Quarterly, 2011
Incumbents are highly likely to win reelection at all levels of government, but scholars continue to debate the extent to which serving in office has a causal effect on winning. For city council elections it is unclear whether or not we should predict a causal effect at all.
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