Coattails and spillover-effects
Quasi-experimental evidence from concurrent executive and legislative elections
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4170657 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lukas Rudolph (0000-0001-8977-4480, LMU Klinikum, corresponding author), April Leininger (0000-0003-2491-9057, Freie Universität Berlin) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Pages | 102264 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Electoral Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-3794 • E-ISSN: 1873-6890 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.electstud.2020.102264 |
| OpenAlex | W3119332238 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 55 |
Concurrent elections are widely used to increase turnout. We theorize and show empirically how concurrency affects electoral outcomes. First, concurrency increases turnout and thereby the participation of peripheral voters. Second, in combined elections, one electoral arena affects the other. In our case of majoritarian executive elections concurrent to proportional representation (PR) legislative elections, the centripetal tendency of majoritarian elections colors off to the concurrent PR race. Third, concurrency also entails spillovers of the incumbency advantage of executive officeholders to the concurrent legislative race. Drawing on quasi-random variation in local election timing in Germany, we show that concurrency increases turnout as well as council votes for the incumbent mayor's party and centrist parties more generally, with slightly more pronounced gains for the political left. As a consequence, concurrent elections consolidate party systems and political power by leading to less fragmented municipal councils and more unified local governments
Concurrency · Democracy · Economics · Legislature · Microeconomics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Proportional representation · Spillover effect · Turnout · Voting · Computer Science · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Fiscal Policies and Political Economy · Law · Media Influence and Politics · Public Administration
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 1,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |