The Influence of Legislators’ Endorsements in Party Leadership Elections
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| Authors | Chris Hanretty |
| Journal/Conference Name | BRITISH POLITICS |
| Paper Category | Social Sciences |
| Paper Abstract | In the 2010 election for the post of leader of the British Labour party, almost all members of parliament endorsed one of five leadership candidates. I investigate the effect of these endorsements on the votes cast for candidates in each Westminster constituency. I find that an MP’s endorsement caused an average increase of 7.5 percentage points in the vote share of the endorsed candidate in that MP’s constituency. |
| Date of publication | 2018 |
| Code Programming Language | R |
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