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Electoral Institutions and Intraparty Cohesion
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2018-07-12)
We study parties' optimal ideological cohesion across electoral rules, when the following trade-off is present: A more heterogenous set of candidates is electorally appealing (catch-all party), yet, it serves policy-related ...
Rank effects in political promotions
(Springer Verlag, 2018)
This paper studies the effect of candidates’ personal vote ranks on promotions to political power in an open list proportional representation system. Using a regression discontinuity design and data from Finnish local ...
When does Regression Discontinuity Design Work? Evidence from Random Election Outcomes
(Econometric Society, 2018)
We use elections data in which a large number of ties in vote counts between candidates are resolved via a lottery to study the personal incumbency advantage. We benchmark non-experimental RDD estimates against the estimate ...
Public Procurement versus Laissez-Faire: Evidence from Household Waste Collection
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2018-12-20)
We document that switching from laissez-faire production to public procurement in residential waste collection in Finland reduces the number of firms active in the local market, but induces a statistically significant and ...
Effects of Municipal Mergers on Voter Turnout
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2018-03-28)
We study the effects of municipal mergers on voter turnout in a difference-in-differences framework, using data from a wave of municipal mergers in Finland in 2009. Analysing two pre-merger elections and three post-merger ...
Victorian Voting: Party Orientation and Class Alignment Revisited
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2018-01-29)
Much of what we know about the alignment of voters with parties comes from mass surveys of the electorate in the postwar period or from aggregate electoral data. Using individual elector level panel data from the 19th ...