Decomposing the Sources of Electoral Support for LDP Representatives 1
Decomposing the Sources of Electoral Support for LDP Representatives 1
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分解自民党代表的选举支持来源1
DOI：
10.2307/440279
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发表时间：
2007
影响因子：
1.5
通讯作者：
S. Hirano
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作者：
S. Hirano
在本文中，我们使用的研究设计，利用日本选举的独特功能，估计和分解在日本众议院选举的在职优势。像一些现有的相关研究一样，我们也使用相同候选人的重复观察来解释未观察到的因素，这些因素在观察中保持不变。我们发现的证据表明，现任自民党代表的选举优势，很大程度上是由于他们比平均开放席位候选人更高的质量。我们没有发现任何证据表明自民党代表获得了直接的办公室保持器的好处。事实上，自民党候选人在一次选举中失败，在随后的选举中失败，被发现获得了选举优势。这一额外收益似乎并不是由政府间转移支付的分配所驱动的。
In this paper we use a research design that exploits unique features of Japanese elections to estimate and decompose the incumbency advantage in Japan’s Lower House elections. Like some existing related studies we also use repeated observations on the same candidates to account for unobserved factors that remain constant across observations. We find evidence that much of incumbent LDP representatives’ electoral advantage is due to their being higher quality than the average open seat candidate. We find no evidence that LDP representatives receive a direct office holder benefit. In fact, LDP candidates who lose one election and rerun in the subsequent election are found to receive an electoral advantage. This rerun benefit does not appear to be driven by the distribution of inter-governmental transfers.