Does a District-Vote Matter for the Behavior of Politicians? A Textual Analysis of Parliamentary Speeches
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Keywords
Party-line; Textual Analysis; Regression Discontinuity; Parliamentary Speeches; Voting;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BIG-2020-03-09 (Big Data)
- NEP-CDM-2020-03-09 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-CMP-2020-03-09 (Computational Economics)
- NEP-POL-2020-03-09 (Positive Political Economics)
- NEP-SEA-2020-03-09 (South East Asia)
- NEP-URE-2020-03-09 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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