Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/39561 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
ZEI Working Paper No. B 02-2009
Publisher: 
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (ZEI), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper is a study of the influence of economic and political conditions on the results of incumbent parties' candidates in local elections in France. The large sample used covers 586 towns and two elections (2001 and 2008). It explicitly deals with the specificities induced by the tworound process of the French electoral rule, and results are provided for both the reelection probability and the share of votes. It is shown that the budget structure, and notably equipment expenditures, has a strong impact on the incumbent party's share of votes. Political variables also play a role, as do the number of candidates, and national partisan waves.
Subjects: 
Local elections
Visible expenditures
JEL: 
D72
H72
H76
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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