The cost of racial animus on a black candidate: Evidence using Google search data

S Stephens-Davidowitz - Journal of Public Economics, 2014 - Elsevier
How can we know how much racial animus costs a black presidential candidate, if many
people lie to surveys? I suggest a new proxy for an area's racial animus from a non-survey …

Examining the role of positive and negative intergroup contact and anti‐immigrant prejudice in B rexit

R Meleady, CR Seger, M Vermue - British Journal of Social …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This study examined the interplay of anti‐immigrant prejudice and intergroup contact
experience on voting intentions within B ritain's 2016 referendum on its membership in the E …

Will a five-minute discussion change your mind? A countrywide experiment on voter choice in France

V Pons - American Economic Review, 2018 - aeaweb.org
This paper provides the first estimate of the effect of door-to-door canvassing on actual
electoral outcomes, via a countrywide experiment embedded in François Hollande's …

Expressive voting and its cost: Evidence from runoffs with two or three candidates

V Pons, C Tricaud - Econometrica, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Do campaigns help voters learn? A cross-national analysis

K Arceneaux - British Journal of Political Science, 2006 - cambridge.org
Recent empirical studies on American elections suggest that campaigns provide voters with
the necessary information to make reasoned voting decisions. Specifically, campaigns help …

The white working class and the 2016 election

N Carnes, N Lupu - Perspectives on Politics, 2021 - cambridge.org
Academics and political pundits alike attribute rising support for right-wing political options
across advanced democracies to the working classes. In the United States, authors claim …

Strong fans, weak campaigns: social media and Duterte in the 2016 Philippine election

A Sinpeng, D Gueorguiev, AA Arugay - Journal of East Asian Studies, 2020 - cambridge.org
The 2016 presidential contest is widely considered as the first “social media election” in the
Philippines. At the same time, it remains unclear if or how social media helped Rodrigo …

Partisan losers' effects: Perceptions of electoral integrity in Mexico

F Cantú, O García-Ponce - Electoral Studies, 2015 - Elsevier
We examine the partisan, logistic, and contextual factors affecting citizens' perceptions of
electoral integrity. Drawing on original survey data collected at different stages of the 2012 …

The partisan sorting of “America”: How nationalist cleavages shaped the 2016 US presidential election

B Bonikowski, Y Feinstein… - American Journal of …, 2021 - journals.uchicago.edu
Political scientists have acknowledged the importance of nationalism as a constitutive
element of radical-right politics but have typically empirically reduced the phenomenon to …

Does campaign spending affect election outcomes? New evidence from transaction-level disbursement data

SS Schuster - The Journal of Politics, 2020 - journals.uchicago.edu
This article uses detailed, transaction-level data on candidate disbursements and panel
survey data to estimate the effect of candidate spending. Transaction-level data allow me to …