Expressway to Votes: Infrastructure Projects and Voter Persuasion

IF 3.8 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Economic Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-14 DOI:10.1093/ej/uead065
Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Dozie Okoye, Belgi Turan
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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 the Justice and Development Party increased in response to the expressways. The estimates imply that the expressways increased the Justice and Development Party’s vote share by 4.8 percentage points—a third of the increase from 2002 to 2011. We provide evidence that the visibility and competence signalled by the expressway expansion, and not increased local economic growth, drove increased vote shares.
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通往投票的高速公路:基础设施项目和选民说服
摘要本文提供了关于政党如何在新生的选举民主中大规模影响选民的因果证据。我们收集了土耳其正义与发展党在高速公路建设方面的新数据,并使用各省每年的建设变化来表明,正义与发展党对高速公路的反应增加了选票。估计表明,高速公路使正义与发展党的选票份额增加了4.8个百分点,是2002年至2011年增长的三分之一。我们提供的证据表明,高速公路扩建所标志的知名度和竞争力,而不是当地经济增长的增加,推动了投票份额的增加。
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Economic Journal
Economic Journal ECONOMICS-
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