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| Title: | | The right look: Conservative politicians look better than their voters reward it  |
| Authors: | | Berggren, Niclas Jordahl, Henrik Poutvaara, Panu |
| Issue Date: | | 2010 |
| Series/Report no.: | | CESifo working paper: Public Choice 3310 |
| Abstract: | | Previous research has established that good-looking political candidates win more votes. We extend this line of research by examining differences between parties on the left and on the right of the political spectrum. Our study combines data on personal votes in real elections with a web survey in which 2,513 non-Finnish respondents evaluated the facial appearance of 1,357 Finnish political candidates. We find that political candidates on the right are better looking in both municipal and parliamentary elections and also have a larger beauty premium in municipal, but not in parliamentary, elections. We discuss possible explanations for these patterns, based on the fact that municipal candidates are relatively unknown. |
| Subjects: | | beauty elections political candidates appearance ideology parties |
| JEL: | | D72 J45 J70 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | CESifo Working Papers, CESifo Group Munich
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