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Reputation Effects and Incumbency (Dis)Advantage

Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 2019
We study dynamic models of electoral accountability. Politicians’ policy preferences are their private information, so officeholders act to influence the electorate’s beliefs — i.e., to build reputation — and improve their re-election prospects. The resulting behavior may be socially desirable (good reputation effects) or undesirable (bad reputation ...
Navin Kartik, Richard Van Weelden
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Incumbency Advantage in an Electoral Contest [PDF]

, 2013
In a campaign spending contest model, this paper investigates whether the sources of incumbency advantage are able to generate the observed pattern of campaign spending and incumbent reelection rates in US elections and assesses the degree to which campaign ?nance reform can mitigate the negative repercussions of incumbency advantage. The paper extends
Cole, Matthew T., Pastine, Ivan, Pastine, Tuvana   +2 more
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Incumbency advantage in Japanese elections

Electoral Studies, 1992
Abstract In US congressional elections, incumbency advantage has been growing. Against such an American scene, Japanese national elections between 1958 and 1990 are analysed. It has been shown that incumbency advantage has remained stable by and large in Japan. Several possible factors are discussed for the Japan-US difference.
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Cohort Effects and the Incumbency Advantage

Legislative Studies Quarterly, 2008
The literature on the incumbency advantage in U.S. House elections has focused mostly on political variables, such as competition and incumbent resources. For this article, I identify an important sociological variable: a cohort effect that separates older generations from younger ones.
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Coalitions and Incumbency Advantage in Mexico

2011
Despite the multi-party feature of the federal electoral system in Mexico, local elections are essentially embedded in a bipartisan system. Literature has thus far assumed that democratic transitions will permeate from the national to the sub-national level. However, in Mexico, even a decade after the democratic transition occurred at the federal level,
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Incumbency Advantage in Nondemocratic Elections [PDF]

, 2011
In nondemocratic politics, incumbency advantage often manifests in the incumbent's ability to eliminate the opponent. We study the impact of this institutional imperfection on both the selection of politicians for office and accountability for those who were selected.
Konstantin Sonin, Georgy Egorov
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Nationalization and the Incumbency Advantage

Political Research Quarterly, 2020
Joel Sievert, Ryan D Williamson
exaly  

The incumbency advantage in second-order PR elections: Evidence from the Irish context, 1942–2019

Electoral Studies, 2021
Michael Jankowski, Stefan Müller
exaly  

Political salaries, electoral selection and the incumbency advantage: Evidence from a wage reform

Journal of Comparative Economics, 2021
Jan Palguta
exaly  

The Size and Sources of Municipal Incumbency Advantage in Canada

Urban Affairs Review, 2021
Jack Lucas
exaly