Mariana Lopes Da Fonseca
Biographic Data
| ID | 4278940 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mariana Lopes Da Fonseca |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mariana Lopes |
| FAMILY NAME | Da Fonseca |
| SIGNATURE | DA FONSECA M L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2267-9881 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Political Competition and the Effectiveness of Gender Quotas: Evidence from Portugal
How should parties that oppose gender quotas react to their adoption and to the new environment of political competition? Should they signal to voters that they are willing to compromise and accommodate the new status quo, or should they dismiss the growing importance of gender in politics instead? In this article, we unmask the indirect effects of gender quotas by arguing that electoral threats act as a political competition mechanism changing e…
Closing the Gender Gap in Legislative Debates: The Role of Gender Quotas
Appointed public officials and local favoritism: Evidence from the German states
Female political representation and substantive effects on policies: A literature review
Lame Ducks and Local Fiscal Policy: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Portugal
I use the introduction of mayoral term limits in Portugal to identify how an exogenous variation in eligibility for office affects policy decisions. Relying on a quasi-experimental difference-in-differences approach, I find that term-limited incumbents pursue more conservative fiscal policies than those who are eligible for re-election. Heterogeneous effects show that the treatment effects primarily reflect the behaviour of right-leaning, term-li…
Identifying the Source of Incumbency Advantage through a Constitutional Reform
This study provides one of the first causal estimates of both the personal and partisan incumbency advantages. Using data on six local elections taking place during the last 20 years in 278 municipalities in Portugal, it relies on a reform introducing mayoral term limits as a natural experiment that creates exogenous variation on the incumbency status of officeholders while holding the incumbency status of the party constant. A new methodology co…
Electoral thresholds and political representation
Closing the Gender Gap in Legislative Debates: The Role of Gender Quotas
Identifying the Source of Incumbency Advantage through a Constitutional Reform
This study provides one of the first causal estimates of both the personal and partisan incumbency advantages. Using data on six local elections taking place during the last 20 years in 278 municipalities in Portugal, it relies on a reform introducing mayoral term limits as a natural experiment that creates exogenous variation on the incumbency status of officeholders while holding the incumbency status of the party constant. A new methodology co…
Appointed public officials and local favoritism: Evidence from the German states
Lame Ducks and Local Fiscal Policy: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Portugal
I use the introduction of mayoral term limits in Portugal to identify how an exogenous variation in eligibility for office affects policy decisions. Relying on a quasi-experimental difference-in-differences approach, I find that term-limited incumbents pursue more conservative fiscal policies than those who are eligible for re-election. Heterogeneous effects show that the treatment effects primarily reflect the behaviour of right-leaning, term-li…
Electoral thresholds and political representation
Political Competition and the Effectiveness of Gender Quotas: Evidence from Portugal
How should parties that oppose gender quotas react to their adoption and to the new environment of political competition? Should they signal to voters that they are willing to compromise and accommodate the new status quo, or should they dismiss the growing importance of gender in politics instead? In this article, we unmask the indirect effects of gender quotas by arguing that electoral threats act as a political competition mechanism changing e…
Electoral thresholds and political representation
Identifying the Source of Incumbency Advantage through a Constitutional Reform
This study provides one of the first causal estimates of both the personal and partisan incumbency advantages. Using data on six local elections taking place during the last 20 years in 278 municipalities in Portugal, it relies on a reform introducing mayoral term limits as a natural experiment that creates exogenous variation on the incumbency status of officeholders while holding the incumbency status of the party constant. A new methodology co…
Lame Ducks and Local Fiscal Policy: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Portugal
I use the introduction of mayoral term limits in Portugal to identify how an exogenous variation in eligibility for office affects policy decisions. Relying on a quasi-experimental difference-in-differences approach, I find that term-limited incumbents pursue more conservative fiscal policies than those who are eligible for re-election. Heterogeneous effects show that the treatment effects primarily reflect the behaviour of right-leaning, term-li…
Female political representation and substantive effects on policies: A literature review
Appointed public officials and local favoritism: Evidence from the German states
Closing the Gender Gap in Legislative Debates: The Role of Gender Quotas
Political Competition and the Effectiveness of Gender Quotas: Evidence from Portugal
How should parties that oppose gender quotas react to their adoption and to the new environment of political competition? Should they signal to voters that they are willing to compromise and accommodate the new status quo, or should they dismiss the growing importance of gender in politics instead? In this article, we unmask the indirect effects of gender quotas by arguing that electoral threats act as a political competition mechanism changing e…
Political science (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (5 works) · Fiscal Policies and Political Economy (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (3 works) · Legislature (3 works)