Electoral Institutions, Party Strategies, Candidate Attributes, and the Incumbency Advantage

In developed democracies, incumbents are consistently found to have an electoral advantage over their challengers. The normative implications of this phenomenon depend on its sources. Despite a large existing literature, there is little consensus on what the sources are. In this three-paper disserta...

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Main Author: Llaudet, Elena
Other Authors: Ansolabehere, Stephen Daniel
Language:en_US
Published: Harvard University 2014
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Online Access:http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11579
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:12274468