The importance of money in elections is a hallmark of contemporary democracies. In this paper, we study how investment capacity, defined as the resources remaining after the municipality perform the mandatory expenditures, ...

How do economic shocks affect the behaviour of elections in democracies? Using U.S. Congress electoral data, I test whether sudden shocks affect unequally incumbent par- ties and opponents. This is identified through, among ...

The objectives of this paper are twofold. First, we investigate whether politicians use resources from the federal budget to maintain and expand their political capital. Second, we examine whether such strategy is rewarded ...

This article presents a general framework for using continuity-based regression discontinuity designs as an identification strategy in multi-seat electoral contests. First, I extend singlewinner- close-race designs by ...

How can managers successfully access political rents by way of corporate political strategies (CPA)? Existing research has suggested several endogenous factors that correlate with CPA outcomes. I offer a more robust solution ...

Politician characteristic regression discontinuity (PCRD) designs are a popular strategy when attempting to casually link a specific trait of an elected politician with a given outcome. However, recent research has ...

While women are underrepresented in politics, recent improvements in women's representation in legislative and executive bodies have spurred academic interest in the effects of electing women on a wide array of outcomes. ...

This paper studies how incumbents respond after being voted out of office when running for reelection in terms of public spending. We use data from Brazilian municipalities, focusing on the periodical reports of budget ...

Este trabalho procura estudar a relação causal entre vitória nas eleições estaduais para deputado e contratos adquiridos por empresas doadoras de campanha. A amostra utilizada foi um conjunto de dados das eleições de 2006 ...

El presente artículo tiene como objetivo investigar el efecto de la representación femenina en política sobre la violencia contra la mujer. Utilizo una estrategia de Regresión Discontinua para elecciones reñidas de alcalde ...