Candidate Ballot Information and Election Outcomes: The Czech Case

Stepan Jurajda and Daniel Münich

No 8691, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We measure the importance of candidate characteristics listed on ballots for a candidate's position on a slate, for preferential votes received by a candidate, and, ultimately, for getting elected. We focus on the effects of gender, various types of academic titles, and also several novel properties of candidates' names. Using data on over 200 thousand candidates competing in recent Czech municipal board and regional legislature elections, and conditioning on slate fixed effects, we find ballot cues to play a stronger role in small municipalities than in large cities and regions, despite the general agreement on higher candidate salience in small municipalities. We also quantify the election advantage of a slate being randomly listed first on a ballot.

Keywords: ballot order effects; low-information elections; name properties (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 D83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2014-12
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Published - published in: PostSoviet Affairs, 2015, 31 (5), 448-469

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