Policy Diffusion Through Elections

• In Event: Mechanisms of Policy Diffusion: Elections, Security, and Social Reform Across States

Brief Overview

We study policy diffusion using neighbors' election cycles as instruments for the endogeneity of their policies. We leverage the asynchronicity of elections due to historical factors, and show that diffusion occurs primarily around election timing.

Authors

• Hitoshi Shigeoka

• Yasutora Watanabe, University of Tokyo