Holding the Constituency: Incumbency Advantage under Open List Proportional Representation

• In Event: The Incumbency Advantage

Brief Overview

Using a new dataset that combines election results and socio-economic indicators at a low level of aggregation – the polling station – we investigate whether incumbents are more likely to hold votes between elections than non-incumbent candidates.

Authors

• Thiago M. Q. Moreira, Texas A & M University

• Jose Antonio Antonio Cheibub, Texas A & M University-College Station

• Andrea Junqueira, Texas A & M University