Expressway to Votes: Infrastructure Projects and Voter Persuasion

Expressway to Votes: Infrastructure Projects and Voter Persuasion

Abstract This paper provides causal evidence on how political parties can sway voters at scale in nascent electoral democracies. We collect novel data on expressway construction by the Justice and Development Party in Turkey and use province-by-year variation in construction to show that votes for t...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Economic journal (London) 2023-12, Vol.134 (657), p.48-94
Hauptverfasser: Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude, Okoye, Dozie, Turan, Belgi
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