Titre :

The politician and the vote factory: Candidates’ resource management skills and electoral returns

Auteur(s) :

Farvaque, Etienne [Auteur]
Lille économie management - UMR 9221 [LEM]
Foucault, Martial [Auteur]
Vigeant, Stephane [Auteur]
Lille économie management - UMR 9221 [LEM]

Titre de la revue :

Journal of Policy Modeling

Éditeur :

Elsevier

Date de publication :

2019-12-04

ISSN :

0161-8938

Mot(s)-clé(s) en anglais :

Campaign funding
DEA
Elections

Discipline(s) HAL :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Economies et finances

Résumé en anglais : [en]

This paper disentangles resource management skills of candidates from the electoral circumstances that help them getting (re-)elected. It is first made use of the DEA method to measure candidates’ resource management ...
Lire la suite >This paper disentangles resource management skills of candidates from the electoral circumstances that help them getting (re-)elected. It is first made use of the DEA method to measure candidates’ resource management abilities. Second, determinants of these scores are estimated. The paper uses a database detailing the different sources of campaign funding for French members of Parliament to analyze their relative performance. Results show a large variance in campaign resource management ability, particularly between political parties, and incumbents and newcomers. They also reveal an important role of constituencies’ characteristics and of politicians' experience in explaining differences between politicians' efforts. Thus, public policies could promote virtuous regulations to reduce disparities among candidates with different financial backgrounds and access to resources, to foster a fairer democracy.Lire moins >

Langue :

Anglais

Vulgarisation :

Non

Collections :

• Lille Économie Management (LEM) - UMR 9221

Source :

Harvested from HAL