The politician and the vote factory: Candidates’ resource management skills and electoral returns

Etienne Farvaque, Martial Foucault () and Stephane Vigeant ()
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Martial Foucault: Political Science Department - Political Science Department - UdeM - Université de Montréal
Stephane Vigeant: Institut des sciences economiques et de management - Université de Lille, Sciences et Technologies, LEM - Lille économie management - UMR 9221 - UA - Université d'Artois - UCL - Université catholique de Lille - Université de Lille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: This paper disentangles resource management skills of candidates from the electoral circumstances that help them getting (re-)elected. It is first made use of the DEA method to measure candidates' resource management abilities. Second, determinants of these scores are estimated. The paper uses a database detailing the different sources of campaign funding for French members of Parliament to analyze their relative performance. Results show a large variance in campaign resource management ability, particularly between political parties, and incumbents and newcomers. They also reveal an important role of constituencies' characteristics and of politicians' experience in explaining differences between politicians' efforts. Thus, public policies could promote virtuous regulations to reduce disparities among candidates with different financial backgrounds and access to resources, to foster a fairer democracy.

Keywords: Campaign funding; DEA; Elections (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-12-04
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Published in Journal of Policy Modeling, 2019, ⟨10.1016/j.jpolmod.2019.09.007⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.jpolmod.2019.09.007

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