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The Large Effects of a Small Win: How Past Rankings Shape the Behavior of Voters and Candidates
By: Riako Granzier, Vincent Pons and Clémence Tricaud
Candidates’ placements in polls or past elections can be powerful coordination devices for both parties and voters. Using a regression discontinuity design in French elections, we show that candidates who place first by only a small margin in the first round are more...
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Keywords:
Strategic Voting;
Coordination;
Bandwagon Effect;
Regression Discontinuity Design;
French Elections;
Voting;
Political Elections;
Behavior;
France
Granzier, Riako, Vincent Pons, and Clémence Tricaud. "The Large Effects of a Small Win: How Past Rankings Shape the Behavior of Voters and Candidates." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 26599, December 2019. (Revise and resubmit requested, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.)