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Local election
About: Local election is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 677 publications have been published within this topic receiving 6349 citations.
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TL;DR: This paper found that the perceived administrative burden of policies is associated with a preference to shift responsibilities to others, perceptions of greater flaws and lesser merit in policies that have created the burden, and opposition to related policy innovations.
Abstract: This article argues that administrative burden—that is, an individual's experience of policy implementation as onerous—is an important consideration for administrators and influences their views on policy and governance options. The authors test this proposition in the policy area of election administration using a mixed-method assessment of local election officials. They find that the perceived administrative burden of policies is associated with a preference to shift responsibilities to others, perceptions of greater flaws and lesser merit in policies that have created the burden (to the point that such judgments are demonstrably wrong), and opposition to related policy innovations.
298 citations
TL;DR: For instance, this paper found significant and robust effects for changes in foreigner shares on the electoral success of parties that built up a distinctive reputation in immigration politics, indicating a positive effect for xenophobic, extreme right-wing parties and an adverse effect for the Green party that actively campaigned for liberal immigration policies and minority rights.
252 citations
TL;DR: This article used a field experiment to measure differential information provision about voting by local election administrators in the United States and found that voters of different ethnicities were significantly less likely to receive any response from local election officials than non-Latino white aliases.
Abstract: Do street-level bureaucrats discriminate in the services they provide to constituents? We use a field experiment to measure differential information provision about voting by local election administrators in the United States. We contact over 7,000 election officials in 48 states who are responsible for providing information to voters and implementing voter ID laws. We find that officials provide different information to potential voters of different putative ethnicities. Emails sent from Latino aliases are significantly less likely to receive any response from local election officials than non-Latino white aliases and receive responses of lower quality. This raises concerns about the effect of voter ID laws on access to the franchise and about bias in the provision of services by local bureaucrats more generally.
243 citations
TL;DR: The authors examined the impact of at-large and district elections on the representation of blacks and Hispanics using varied methodologies and 1988 data and found that although at large elections represent blacks much better than a decade ago, there is still a small gap between the representation afforded by at- large and district systems.
Abstract: Political scientists have long been interested in the link between election structures and the representation of interest. Here we examine one such link, that between local election structures and minority representation. Research of the middle and late 1970s revealed that at-large city council election procedures resulted in a dramatic underrepresentation of blacks and some underrepresentation of Hispanics. Now a revisionist position claims that at-large elections no longer have this detrimental effect on minority representation, if needed they ever did. In this paper we examine this controversial link by assessing the impact of at-large and district elections on the representation of blacks and Hispanics using varied methodologies and 1988 data. We find that although at-large elections represent blacks much better than a decade ago, there is still a small gap between the representation afforded by at-large and district systems. On the other hand, the impact of local election structures on Hispanic repre...
187 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the effect of gender on the performance of female mayors and found that female mayors have better health outcomes, receive more federal discretionary transfers, and have lower corruption.
Abstract: This paper analyzes the e ect of the gender of local policymakers on policy outcomes. Analyzing a rich dataset from Brazilian municipalities and using a regression discon- tinuity design, we nd that municipalities ruled by female mayors have better health outcomes, receive more federal discretionary transfers, and have lower corruption. Addi- tionally, male mayors hire more temporary public employees than their female counter- parts when they are allowed to run for re-election, and when municipal elections are approaching. These ndings suggest that male mayors may promote more political pa- tronage than female mayors and that men and women may respond di erently to local election incentives.
175 citations
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| 2025 | 4 |
| 2024 | 6 |
| 2023 | 18 |
| 2022 | 44 |
| 2021 | 32 |
| 2020 | 28 |