Wasting public money to buy turnout: quasi-experimental evidence from the Polish battle for fire trucks

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dc.abstract.enIt is well known that incumbents enjoy advantages in elections. Among others, they may use public resources to increase their electoral chances by mobilizing specific social groups to vote. In the 2020 presidential elections, the Polish government organised a competition: small municipalities with the highest turnout could win a fire truck. We exploit the threshold of 20,000 that arbitrarily divided municipalities into competing and non-competing for this public good and apply the quasi-experimental Regression Discontinuity Design. The competition aimed to increase the turnout in districts supporting the incumbent president. However, we find no evidence of any significant impact of the competition on the turnout or support for the incumbent around the threshold. We discuss why similar practices are common despite this result.
dc.affiliationWydział Nauk Społecznych w Warszawie
dc.affiliationInstytut Nauk Społecznych
dc.contributor.authorGulczyński, Michał
dc.contributor.authorCześnik, Mikołaj
dc.date.access2024-10-18
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-18T11:52:46Z
dc.date.available2024-10-18T11:52:46Z
dc.date.created2024-02-27
dc.date.issued2024-04-24
dc.description.accesstimeafter_publication
dc.description.versionoriginal_author
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/17457289.2024.2343379
dc.identifier.eissn1745-7297
dc.identifier.issn1745-7289
dc.identifier.urihttps://share.swps.edu.pl/handle/swps/986
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17457289.2024.2343379?scroll=top&needAccess=true
dc.languageen
dc.pbn.affiliationnauki o polityce i administracji
dc.rightsCC-BY-NC-ND
dc.rights.questionYes_rights
dc.share.articleOPEN_REPOSITORY
dc.subject.enincumbency advantage
dc.subject.enpork barrel
dc.subject.enpresidential elections
dc.subject.enregression discontinuity
dc.subject.envoting behaviour
dc.swps.sciencecloudnosend
dc.titleWasting public money to buy turnout: quasi-experimental evidence from the Polish battle for fire trucks
dc.title.journalJournal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties
dc.typeJournalArticle
dspace.entity.typeArticle