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Urbanization and the change in political elites
Franck, Raphaël; Gay, Victor - 2024
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014452376
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Urbanization and the change in political elites
Franck, Raphaël; Gay, Victor - 2024
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014448167
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Representation of the people : franchise extension and the "Sinn Féin election" in Ireland, 1918
De Bromhead, Alan; Fernihough, Alan; Hargaden, Enda - 2018
Electoral reforms in 1918 nearly tripled the number of people eligible to vote in Ireland. Following the reforms - the largest franchise extensions in UK history - the previously obscure Sinn Féin party secured 73 of Ireland's 105 seats, an outcome that presaged a guerrilla war and ultimately...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011862577
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Urbanization and the change in political elites
Franck, Raphaël; Gay, Victor - 2024
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014445553
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How does access to education influence political candidacy? : lessons from school openings in Sweden
Lindgren, Karl-Oskar; Oskarsson, Sven; Persson, Mikael - 2016
How does availability of education affect who becomes a political representative? Theorists have pointed out access to education as a key to a well-functioning democracy, but few empirical studies have examined how changes in the access to education influence the chances of becoming a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011453783
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Competition, benchmarking, and electoral success : evidence from 69 years of the German Bundestag
Frank, Marco; Stadelmann, David - In: European journal of political economy 77 (2023), pp. 1-18
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014266586
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Election observation in Nigeria & Madagascar : diplomatic vs. technocratic bias
Kohnert, Dirk - 2004
observation of transitional elections in Nigeria and Madagascar, will serve to illustrate this hypothesis and its consequences for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011895554
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Women legislators and economic performance
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Min, Brian; … - 2018
is no evidence of how this influences economic performance. We investigate this using data on competitive elections to … India's state assemblies, leveraging close elections to isolate causal effects. We find significantly higher growth in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872787
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Ethnic conflict: the role of ethnic representation
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Lakshmi Iyer - 2023
-random variation in legislator religion generated by the results of close elections. We find that the presence of Muslim legislators …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014314747
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Politicians
Geys, Benny - 2018
Politicians are persons involved in the process of public policymaking in their role as members of governments, parliaments, political parties, and other political bodies at the (sub)national level (e.g., local government, state legislature, national parliament, etc.) as well as within the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012907716