This paper investigates party use of seniority systems to allocate nominations for elected
and appointed offices. Such systems, which can regulate party members' access to offices at …

This paper studies the effects of campaign spending limits on the political entry, selection,
and behavior of local politicians in Brazil. We analyze a reform that limits campaign …

We investigate whether the event of women being competitively elected as state legislators
encourages subsequent political participation among women. Using a regression …

The primary goal of our paper is to quantify the importance of imperfect competition in the
US construction industry by estimating the size of rents earned by American firms and …

In this analysis of how electoral rules and outcomes shape the internal organization of
political parties, we make an analogy to primary elections to argue that parties use …

In French parliamentary and local elections, candidates ranked first and second in the first
round automatically qualify for the second round, while a third candidate qualifies only when …

A handful of recent studies have investigated the causal effect of incumbency on dynasty
formation in candidate-centered electoral contexts. We use candidate-level data and a …

This paper documents gender differences in the career paths of novice politicians. Using
trajectories of over 11,000 candidates for California local offices and a regression …

In most national elections, voters face a key choice between continuity and change.
Electoral turnovers occur when the incumbent candidate or party fails to win reelection. To …

Incumbents tend to have a solid electoral advantage in candidate-centered electoral
settings. Do similar incumbency effects exist in more party-centered environments? We …