Are All Politics Local? The Relative Strength of Presidential and Mayoral Coattails in El Salvador

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Brief Overview

Examination of elections in El Salvador finds that presidential coattails are stronger than reverse coattails, and that the strength of presidential coattails diminishes as the amount of time between presidential and local elections increases.

Authors

• Kevin Edward Lucas, Capital University

• Megan K Douglas, Capital University