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Beyond Colors: Communication and Social Identity in Natural Groups

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rtv:ceisrp:610&r=&r=cdm

Published: September 10, 2025 00:00

This paper examines whether communication can mitigate in-group favoritism when group membership is based on a real-life trait (Italian vs. non-Italian citizenship among university students) rather than artificially induced, as in the minimal group…

Voters Can Reward Climate Adaptation Policy

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:24jkx_v1&r=&r=cdm

Published: August 27, 2025 00:00

Are policies that contribute to reducing climate vulnerability electorally advantageous? Political science has long studied the politics of carbon dioxide mitigation, but we know less about the political logic of climate impacts. As adaptation lies at the…

What drives public trust in elections? Experimental evidence from Malawi

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:osfxxx:xhuz5_v1&r=&r=cdm

Published: August 20, 2025 00:00

International donors have invested heavily in strengthening electoral administration in low-income democracies, aiming to reduce irregularities and build trust. However, we know little about whether these interventions actually improve public perceptions.…

Selective Turnout, Voting Policy, And Partisan Bias: Evidence From Multi-Level Data

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cwl:cwldpp:2453&r=&r=cdm

Published: August 8, 2025 00:00

We study voting in general elections for the U.S. House of Representatives. Our data set includes demographics and turnout of all registered voters for the years 2016Ð2020, as well as vote shares at the precinct and contest level. We estimate a Downsian…

Women's Electoral Success and Female Voter Turnout: Evidence From Individual Voting Data for Germany

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:dar:wpaper:156038&r=&r=cdm

Published: July 28, 2025 00:00

This paper brings individual‐level evidence to the hypothesis that women holding political offices, that is, descriptive representation, affects the participation of women in politics. Specifically, using a regression discontinuity design, we analyze the…

Unrequited Love: Estimating the Electoral Effect of a Place-based Green Subsidy with a 2D Regression Discontinuity Design

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:s4nje_v1&r=&r=cdm

Published: July 17, 2025 00:00

Can targeted tax credits designed to stimulate renewable energy development in areas vulnerable to economic decline shift voters’ support? While advocates argue that economic gains from such incentives can realign political preferences by altering local…

Political Participation and Competition in Concurrent Elections: Evidence from Italy

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:feemwp:359333&r=&r=cdm

Published: July 7, 2025 00:00

This paper investigates how concurrent national and local elections affect the local political participation and competition. Leveraging a quasi-experimental framework provided by Italy’s staggered electoral timing, the paper employs a…

Processing macroeconomic signals: Voter responses to growth, unemployment, inflation and stock markets

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hhs:ifauwp:2025_010&r=&r=cdm

Published: June 17, 2025 00:00

Economic voting theory suggests that voters reward incumbents for strong economic performance and punish them for weak performance. However, this view often ignores the multidimensional nature of the economy. Hence, we lack systematic evidence about how…

Country Music: Positional Voting and Strategic Behavior

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pie:dsedps:2025/322&r=&r=cdm

Published: June 1, 2025 00:00

We analyze strategic behaviour with positional voting in the context of the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC). In the ESC, each country participates both as a candidate, by presenting an artist and a song, and as a voter, via jury members and televote,…