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2. The Economic Effects of Leaders' Economic Interests: Evidence from Election by Lot in the Florentine Republic.

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Abramson, Scott F.

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*POLITICIANS, *POLITICAL attitudes, *ECONOMICS & politics, *POLITICAL leadership, *ELECTIONS, *LOTTERIES
Abstract

Do political leaders pursue their own parochial interests? Does the economic background of those in power affect the economy? Estimating the impact of leaders' interests without bias is difficult given the nonrandom nature of transitions between leaders in most regimes. This article exploits a selection mechanism in the Florentine Republic that combines features of election and lottery to evaluate the causal impact of leaders' economic interests. Coupling high-frequency data on the trading value of the Florentine currency with data on the guild association of each leader, I show that the export orientation of the Florentine executive, the standard-bearer of justice, had a large effect on the value of the city's currency, the florin. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2024
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4. Uncovering the Effect of Gender on Perceptions of Politicians’ Ideal Points

Author

Abramson, Scott F and Gillespie, Morgan

Subjects
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Abstract

Do voters use politicians' gender to form beliefs about their ideological positions when in office? We design an experiment that asks voters to forecast the votes of hypothetical politicians on real bills. In separate arms of the experiment we randomize politicians' gender and then gender and party affiliation, respectively. Marrying the data from this experiment with a model of voting, we can recover parameters that describe: 1.) how voters' beliefs about politician ideology varies with gender; 2.) how these beliefs vary with party (Democrat and Republican); 3.) beliefs about the location of bills in the same underlying ideological space as politicians; and 4.) beliefs about the probability of a politician's party given their gender.

Published
2023
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6. What Do We Learn about Voter Preferences from Conjoint Experiments?

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science, Abramson, Scott F, Kocak, Korhan, Magazinnik, Asya, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science, Abramson, Scott F, Kocak, Korhan, and Magazinnik, Asya

Published
2022

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