Meriläinen, Jaakko and Tukiainen, Janne (2018) Rank effects in political promotions. Public Choice. ISSN 0048-5829
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Abstract
This paper studies the effect of candidates’ personal vote ranks on promotions to political power in an open list proportional representation system. Using a regression discontinuity design and data from Finnish local elections, we find that ranking first within a party enhances a politician’s chances of getting promoted to the position of a municipal board chair, the most important task in Finnish local politics. Other ranks matter less. We document that the effect of ranking first is larger when there is less within-party competition, but the role of external competition is ambiguous. Our evidence suggests that the mechanism behind the rank effects is primarily unrelated to electoral incentives but rather to party-specific norms or political culture. Ranks seem to be, however, only a complement to other promotion criteria such as politicians’ previous political experience or how close to the party lines their policy positions stand.
Item Type: | Article |
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Official URL: | https://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues... |
Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2018 |
Divisions: | Government |
Subjects: | J Political Science > JC Political theory |
Date Deposited: | 16 Aug 2018 12:03 |
Last Modified: | 01 Dec 2024 01:27 |
URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/89977 |
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