Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/107479 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 8691
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We measure the importance of candidate characteristics listed on ballots for a candidate's position on a slate, for preferential votes received by a candidate, and, ultimately, for getting elected. We focus on the effects of gender, various types of academic titles, and also several novel properties of candidates' names. Using data on over 200 thousand candidates competing in recent Czech municipal board and regional legislature elections, and conditioning on slate fixed effects, we find ballot cues to play a stronger role in small municipalities than in large cities and regions, despite the general agreement on higher candidate salience in small municipalities. We also quantify the election advantage of a slate being randomly listed first on a ballot.
Subjects: 
low-information elections
ballot order effects
name properties
JEL: 
D72
D83
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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