parliamentary elections and their electoral success. To identify local-level variation in urbanization, we leverage exogenous …This study argues that urbanization changed the relationship between the occupation of candidates running in … changes to the boundaries of electoral constituencies in the 1928, 1932, and 1936 French parliamentary elections. The results …

This paper studies the impact of campaign spending on votes in French legislative elections. We exploit the political … augmented. We have data on two consecutive elections (one before and one after the reforms) and focus on candidates who competed … in both of them. We find that the difference in candidates’ campaign expenses across elections is strongly affected by …

Party performance in state and federal elections is highly interdependent. Federal elections impact regional voting …

probability before the election (Maskin and Tirole’s “feedback” case). In the three-period case, with two elections, the dynamic …

We present a model of elections in which interest group donations allow candidates to shift policy positions. We show …

elections, we show that when time constraints are binding, bicameralism might lead to a decline in the legislator's bargaining …