The Right Look: Conservative Politicians Look Better and Voters Reward It
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- Berggren, Niclas & Jordahl, Henrik & Poutvaara, Panu, 2017. "The right look: Conservative politicians look better and voters reward it," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 146(C), pages 79-86.
- Berggren, Niclas & Jordahl, Henrik & Poutvaara, Panu, 2010. "The Right Look: Conservative Politicians Look Better and Voters Reward It," Working Paper Series 855, Research Institute of Industrial Economics, revised 08 Feb 2012.
- Berggren, Niclas & Jordahl, Henrik & Poutvaara, Panu, 2017. "The right look: Conservative politicians look better and voters reward it," Munich Reprints in Economics 55048, University of Munich, Department of Economics.
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Keywords
Beauty; Elections; Political candidates; Appearance; Ideology; Parties;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- J45 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Public Sector Labor Markets
- J70 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - General
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2015-06-20 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-POL-2015-06-20 (Positive Political Economics)
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