Ballot Cues, Business Candidates, and Voter Choices in Local Elections

Adams, Brian; Lascher, Edward L.; Martin, Danielle Joesten

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“…In line with our priors and experimental research on working class and business candidates in other contexts (Adams et al, 2021;Carnes, 2018;Carnes and Lupu, 2016a), Figure B.3a shows that voters prefer candidates that work as an employee (over a business owner) in companies that have followed government's regulations, which gives an indication for whom they may hold accountable in the corruption case. Note: These plots show the marginal means (MMs), i.e.…”

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confidence: 75%

Inequality and Redistribution: Essays on Local Elections, Gender and Corruption in Developing Countries

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Persistent economic and political inequalities in developing countries have intensified public debates about the causes of inequality and the implementation of redistributive policies. While inequality and redistribution are outcomes of political processes and institutions, this thesis aims to address understudied aspects of political partisanship, gender, and corruption, and their impact on inequality and redistribution in Bolivia, Brazil, and Tanzania. This thesis provides a comprehensive perspective on inequality, encompassing income and wealth distribution (economic inequality) and the distribution of political power between genders (political inequality). The thesis uses a combination of novel (quasi-)experimental methods, survey data col-lection in Brazil and Tanzania, and innovative data collection in Bolivia using nighttime satellite data and election forensics. To enable causal inference, the thesis uses survey experiments, and a regression discontinuity design to provide insights into the political economy of these countries. The findings of this thesis offer several important contributions to the political economy literature. On the supply side, the findings reveal the impact of local government partisan-ship on poverty and economic inequalities. On the demand side, the findings offer insights into voter evaluations of local candidates involved in corruption, promoting pro-poor policies, with strong ties to firms, and their gender. By examining both the demand and supply sides of redistribution, the thesis provides a comprehensive understanding of the factors contributing to persistent economic and political inequalities. The insights from this thesis have significant implications for developing effective policy interventions. By analysing the complex relationship between voter support for political candidates, redistribution and affirmative action policies, this research contributes to a broader understanding of why high economic and political inequality and low redistribu-tion coexist in developing countries. The empirical evidence offers valuable insights for political economy research in developing countries, emphasising the relevance of local level granular data for addressing inequality and promoting sustainable development.

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Section: Interaction Effects: Voter Supportsupporting

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“…However, the voter bias hypothesis has not found clear support in modern empirical research. Across countries as varied as Argentina, Austria, Canada, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and across a range of measures of economic backgrounds, both observational and experimental studies fail to find evidence that voters prefer politicians from more privileged economic backgrounds (Adams et al 2020, Albaugh 2020, Bonica 2020, Campbell & Cowley 2014, Carnes 2018, Carnes & Lupu 2016a, Gift & Lastra-Anadón 2018, Griffin et al 2019, Horiuchi et al 2018, Hoyt & DeShields 2020, Kevins 2021, Sevi et al 2020, Vivyan et al 2020). On the contrary, researchers more often find that voters see less advantaged candidates as warmer and more relatable, and voters consistently report that they would prefer to see more working-class politicians in office (Carnes & Lupu 2022b).…”

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The Economic Backgrounds of Politicians

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Lupu

2023

Annu. Rev. Polit. Sci.

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Research on the economic backgrounds of politicians is once again flourishing in political science. In this article, we describe the economic characteristics that scholars have recently studied and the common threads that have emerged in modern work on this topic. This growing literature is largely united by a shared concern about the unequal economic makeup of institutions: Recent studies generally agree that politicians tend to be vastly better off than citizens on every economic measure and that politicians from different economic backgrounds tend to think and behave differently in office. However, the literature is far from a consensus regarding why politicians are so economically advantaged. Going forward, there are numerous opportunities for future work to address this gap; to extend the literature to new countries, institutions, and time periods; and to better understand how economic backgrounds intersect with race, gender, and other social characteristics. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Political Science, Volume 26 is June 2023. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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“…However, when it came to small businessmen candidates these partisan differences didn't occur. [18] American voters were not the only voters who seemed to be important to public opinion scholars. Scholars studied the inclinations of British voters in an attempt to clarify their stance regarding rich candidates.…”

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The Paradox of Money in Politics: When Businessmen Choose to Be Politicians

Zahra¹

2021

ECO

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This research paper highlights the link between economics and politics through exploring the controversial phenomenon of money in politics. Using the theoretical framework that highlights the importance of the multinational corporations in global politics as well as the structural relationship between the state and businessmen, this paper starts to analyze the complexity of this phenomenon. Most of the scholarly work emphasized the negative consequences of this phenomenon and a few showed that it could result in mixed outcomes. A number of scholars went beyond these results to show us the real paradox or dilemma about money in politics. Money was indispensable to electoral campaigns that informed voters in spite of any problems that money could cause. In addition, money had an impact on the democratic process, although this impact differed from a country to another. Then the paper highlights one of the most famous and perplexing manifestations of money in politics in today's world which is the willingness of businessmen to run for elections as candidates who seek office as legislators or executives. This desire to occupy a governmental position made scholars keen to explain the convenient environmental conditions for this to take place, the popular support for businessmen candidates and the motive behind this. The paper concludes the persistence of this paradox and recommends the necessity of collaboration between economic and political researchers in order to investigate this dilemma and further explain the conditions related to businessmen who reach office.

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Ballot Cues, Business Candidates, and Voter Choices in Local Elections

Cited by 10 publications

References 24 publications

Inequality and Redistribution: Essays on Local Elections, Gender and Corruption in Developing Countries

Inequality and Redistribution: Essays on Local Elections, Gender and Corruption in Developing Countries

The Economic Backgrounds of Politicians

The Paradox of Money in Politics: When Businessmen Choose to Be Politicians

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