History-bound reelections
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Gersbach, Hans
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2019-05-27T12:35:53Z
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2017-06-11T22:11:04Z
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2018-03-07T16:45:19Z
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2019-05-27T12:35:53Z
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2015-11
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/108815
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10.3929/ethz-a-010556421
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Often political races are not really competitive, and the path to reelection is smooth for many incumbents. In two-candidate races for office we suggest the introduction of a new re-election rule, which we call the “Score-replication Rule.” This rule requires that, to be reelected, any incumbent has to obtain a percentage of votes that is at least as high as the highest vote-share he/she obtained in any previous election (reduced by some margin). Such a delimiter would restrain negative incumbency advantages,” and render reelection competitive again. It could also reduce polarization in the United States Congress. Moreover, we suggest how history-bound reelections could be used in European-style proportional election systems.
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ETH Zurich, Center of Economic Research (CER-ETH)
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History-bound reelections
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Competitive elections
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Incumbency advantages
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Score-replication rule
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History-bound reelections
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Working Paper
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In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
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2015
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Economics Working Paper Series
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15/225
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14 p.
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DDC - DDC::3 - Social sciences::320 - Political science
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JEL - JEL::D - Microeconomics::D7 - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making
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JEL - JEL::D - Microeconomics::D8 - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty
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Zurich
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published
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ETH Zürich::00002 - ETH Zürich::00012 - Lehre und Forschung::00007 - Departemente::02120 - Dep. Management, Technologie und Ökon. / Dep. of Management, Technology, and Ec.
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ETH Zürich::00002 - ETH Zürich::00012 - Lehre und Forschung::00007 - Departemente::02120 - Dep. Management, Technologie und Ökon. / Dep. of Management, Technology, and Ec.::03729 - Gersbach, Hans / Gersbach, Hans
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ETH Zürich::00002 - ETH Zürich::00012 - Lehre und Forschung::00007 - Departemente::02120 - Dep. Management, Technologie und Ökon. / Dep. of Management, Technology, and Ec.::03729 - Gersbach, Hans / Gersbach, Hans
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