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    • Climbing the ranks: incumbency effects in party-list systems 

      Fiva, Jon H.; Røhr, Helene Lie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Incumbents tend to have a solid electoral advantage in candidate-centered electoral settings. Do similar incumbency effects exist in more party-centered environments? We estimate incumbency effects in an open-list proportional ...

    • Local Candidates and Voter Mobilization: Evidence from Historical Two-Round Elections in Norway 

      Fiva, Jon H.; Smith, Daniel M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      What effect do candidates with local ties have on voter turnout and party support? A considerable challenge within the existing literature on the personal vote, including that part which derives from local ties, is ...

    • Local favoritism in at-large proportional representation systems 

      Fiva, Jon H.; Halse, Askill Harkjerr (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Pork barrel spending is typically attributed to the strategic behavior of political elites hoping to be electorally rewarded by voters residing in their districts. Such behavior is expected to depend on the incentives ...

    • Mechanical and psychological effects of electoral reform 

      Fiva, Jon H.; Folke, Olle (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      To understand how electoral reform affects political outcomes, one needs to assess its total effect, incorporating how the reform affects the outcomes given the political status quo (the mechanical effects) and the additional ...

    • Moral hazard in electoral teams: List rank and campaign effort 

      Cox, Gary W.; Fiva, Jon H.; Smith, Daniel M.; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      How do parties motivate candidates to exert effort in closed-list elections, where seat outcomes are uncertain only for candidates in marginal list positions? We argue that parties can solve this moral hazard problem by ...

    • Moral hazard in electoral teams: List rank and campaign effort 

      Fiva, Jon H.; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen; Cox, Gary W.; Smith, Daniel M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      How do parties motivate candidates to exert effort in closed-list elections, where seat outcomes are uncertain only for candidates in marginal list positions? We argue that parties can solve this moral hazard problem by ...

    • Norwegian parliamentary elections, 1906?2013: representation and turnout across four electoral systems 

      Fiva, Jon H.; Smith, Daniel M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Since gaining full independence in 1905, Norway has experienced more than a century of democratic elections, and has reformed its electoral system three times, most notably with the switch from a two-round runoff system ...

    • Parties, Legislators, and the Origins of Proportional Representation 

      Cox, Gary W.; Fiva, Jon H.; Smith, Daniel M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      A prominent line of theories holds that proportional representation (PR) was introduced in many European democracies by a fragmented bloc of conservative parties seeking to preserve their legislative seat shares after ...

    • Political dynasties and the incumbency advantage in party-centered environments 

      Fiva, Jon H.; Smith, Daniel M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      A handful of recent studies have investigated the causal effect of incumbency on dynasty formation in candidate-centered electoral contexts. We use candidate-level data and a regression discontinuity design to estimate the ...

    • Seniority-Based Nominations and Political Careers 

      Cirone, Alexandra; Cox, Gary W.; Fiva, Jon H. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      This paper investigates party use of seniority systems to allocate nominations for elected and appointed offices. Such systems, which can regulate party members’ access to offices at multiple levels of their careers, are ...

    • The Contraction Effect: How Proportional Representation Affects Mobilization and Turnout 

      Cox, Gary W.; Fiva, Jon H.; Smith, Daniel M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      A substantial body of research examines whether increasing the proportionality of an electoral system increases turnout, mostly based on cross-national comparisons. In this study, we offer two main contributions to the ...

    • The Power of Parties: Evidence From Close Municipal Elections in Norway 

      Fiva, Jon H.; Folke, Olle; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      We show that small shifts in representation can affect policy in proportional election systems. Using data from Norway, we find that a larger left-wing party leads to more property taxation, higher childcare spending, and ...