First among equals: The first place effect and political promotion in multi-member plurality elections

We study the impact of rank-based decision-making in a multi-member plurality electoral system by examining the decisions of Philippine legislative councilors to run for and win higher office. By focusing on multi-member plurality elections, we identify the effect of rank amongst politicians that ho...

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Main Authors: DULAY, Dean C., GO, Laurence
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spelling sg-smu-ink.soss_research-45842023-03-27T01:51:35Z First among equals: The first place effect and political promotion in multi-member plurality elections DULAY, Dean C. GO, Laurence We study the impact of rank-based decision-making in a multi-member plurality electoral system by examining the decisions of Philippine legislative councilors to run for and win higher office. By focusing on multi-member plurality elections, we identify the effect of rank amongst politicians that hold the same office and received a similar number of votes. To identify the causal effect of rank, we conduct a close-elections RD at the village, municipality, and province levels. Our main result is the first place effect: incumbent first placers are 5–9% (1–4%) more likely to run (win) in future elections than incumbent second placers. The first place effect is unique among rank effects: subsequent rank comparisons yield substantially weaker or insignificant results. Further evidence suggests that a variety of potential mechanisms—party alignment, strategic voting, differential levels of media exposure or the better performance of first placers—do not seem to explain our results. These results improve our understanding of the variety of ways rank effects interact with electoral systems. 2021-08-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3326 info:doi/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2021.104455 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4584/viewcontent/Draft_JPubE_Final__2_.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School of Social Sciences eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Rank effect Multi-member plurality Political promotion Regression discontinuity design The Philippines Asian Studies Political Science
institution Singapore Management University
building SMU Libraries
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country Singapore
Singapore
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topic Rank effect
Multi-member plurality
Political promotion
Regression discontinuity design
The Philippines
Asian Studies
Political Science
spellingShingle Rank effect
Multi-member plurality
Political promotion
Regression discontinuity design
The Philippines
Asian Studies
Political Science
DULAY, Dean C.
GO, Laurence
First among equals: The first place effect and political promotion in multi-member plurality elections
description We study the impact of rank-based decision-making in a multi-member plurality electoral system by examining the decisions of Philippine legislative councilors to run for and win higher office. By focusing on multi-member plurality elections, we identify the effect of rank amongst politicians that hold the same office and received a similar number of votes. To identify the causal effect of rank, we conduct a close-elections RD at the village, municipality, and province levels. Our main result is the first place effect: incumbent first placers are 5–9% (1–4%) more likely to run (win) in future elections than incumbent second placers. The first place effect is unique among rank effects: subsequent rank comparisons yield substantially weaker or insignificant results. Further evidence suggests that a variety of potential mechanisms—party alignment, strategic voting, differential levels of media exposure or the better performance of first placers—do not seem to explain our results. These results improve our understanding of the variety of ways rank effects interact with electoral systems.
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author DULAY, Dean C.
GO, Laurence
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GO, Laurence
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title First among equals: The first place effect and political promotion in multi-member plurality elections
title_short First among equals: The first place effect and political promotion in multi-member plurality elections
title_full First among equals: The first place effect and political promotion in multi-member plurality elections
title_fullStr First among equals: The first place effect and political promotion in multi-member plurality elections
title_full_unstemmed First among equals: The first place effect and political promotion in multi-member plurality elections
title_sort first among equals: the first place effect and political promotion in multi-member plurality elections
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2021
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3326
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4584/viewcontent/Draft_JPubE_Final__2_.pdf
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