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Do higher wages produce career politicians? Evidence from two discontinuity designs
 Palguta, J. ; Pertold, Filip
Wages paid to politicians affect both the selection of candidates into electoral races and the on-the-job performance incentives of incumbents. We differentiate between selection and incentive effects using two regression discontinuity designs based on: 1) population thresholds shifting politicians' wages and 2) electoral seat thresholds splitting candidates into those who narrowly won or lost. We find that higher wages do not increase the electoral incumbency advantage, suggesting that the incentive effect of higher wages does not impact re-election rates. We further show that higher wages motivate narrowly elected incumbents to run again much less often than past narrowly non-elected candidates.
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Who is your mayor? Electoral competition and characteristics of political representatives in small Czech municipalities
 Palguta, Ján
This study empirically demonstrates that the electoral competition for seats in the municipal councils substantially declines with the size of municipalities. Municipalities with 10,000-20,000 inhabitants see an average of 8.8 candidates competing for one council seat, while municipalities with under 1,000 inhabitants have an average of just 2.2 candidates. About 450,000 Czech citizens reside in municipalities “affected” by the very small pool of candidates (no more than two) for one council seat. In summary, this study demonstrates that the residential structure in the Czech Republic contributes to limited competition between political candidates in small municipalities, which can reflect upon the quality of representatives and consequently upon the quality and efficiency of municipal administration. Together with the high costs of administration in small municipalities, low political competition represents another undesirable aspect of the highly atomized residential structure in the Czech Republic.
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Electoral competition with rationally inattentive voters
 Matějka, Filip ; Tabellini, G.
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