The Dynamics of Political Selection

Publications

2025

• Publication Christine Bangum, Benny Geys and Rune J. Sørensen

  Pro-Social Preferences and the Paradox of Voting

  Journal of Public Economics, forthcoming.

• Publication Daniel M. Smith, Alexandra Cirone, Dawn L. Teele, Gary W. Cox and Jon H. Fiva

  'Hidden Majoritarianism and Women's Career Progression in Proportional Representation Systems

  American Political Science Review, forthcoming.

• Publication Jon H. Fiva, Oda Nedregård and Henning Øien

  Group Identities and Parliamentary Debates

  Journal of Politics, forthcoming.

• Working paper Christine T. Bangum, Jon H. Fiva, Giovanna M. Invernizzi, Carlo Prato, Janne Tukiainen

  Party Factions and Candidate Selection.

  CESifo Working Paper No. 12087.

• Working paper Jon H. Fiva, Jo Thori Lind, Bjørn-Atle Reme, Henning Øien

  Sick of Politics?

  CESifo Working Paper No. 11881.

• Publication Benny Geys and Rune J. Sørensen

  Transitory income windfalls and charitable giving: Evidence from Norwegian register data, 1993–2021.

  The Economic Journal 135, no. 667 (2025): 943-963.

• Publication Benny Geys and Rune J. Sørensen

  The causal effect of affluence on voter turnout: New evidence from lottery winnings.

  British Journal of Political Science 55 (2025).

• Publication Jon H. Fiva, Oda Nedregård and Henning Øien

  The Norwegian Parliamentary Debates Dataset

  Scientific Data, 12, 4.

2024

• Working paper Sigurd S. Arntzen, Jon H. Fiva and Rune J. Sørensen

  Vetting for Virtue: Democracy’s Challenge in Excluding Criminals from Office.

  CESifo Working Paper No. 11412.

• Publication Rune J. Sørensen

  Are politicians more generous? Evidence from charitable giving.

  Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 227, p.106742.

• Publication Brenda van Coppenolle and Daniel M. Smith

  Dynasties in Historical Political Economy

  In Jeffery A. Jenkins and Jared Rubin (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy, pp. 185-208. Oxford University Press.

• Publication Dawn Teele

  The Political Geography of the Gender Gap

  Journal of Politics, Volume 86, Number 2, Pages 395-818

• Publication Benny Geys and Rune J. Sørensen

  A Post-politics Earnings Penalty? Evidence from Politicians’ Life-time Income Trajectories (1970-2019).

  Kyklos, Volume 77, Issue 1, Pages 57-76

• Publication Benny Geys, Zuzana Murdoch and Rune J. Sørensen

  Public Employees as Elected Politicians: Assessing Direct and Indirect Substantive Effects of Passive Representation

  Journal of Politics, Volume 86, Number 1, Pages 1-393

• Publication Gary W. Cox, Jon H. Fiva and Max-Emil M. King

  Bound by Borders: Voter Mobilization through Social Networks

  British Journal of Political Science 54, no. 4 (2024): 1198-1216.

• Publication Jon H. Fiva, Federica Izzo and Janne Tukiainen

  The Gatekeeper's Dilemma: Political Selection or Team Effort

  Journal of Public Economics, Volume 234

• Publication Jon H. Fiva and Oda Nedregård

  How Does Party Discipline Affect Legislative Behavior? Evidence from Within-Term Variation in Lame-Duck Status

  Quarterly Journal of Political Science: Vol. 19: No. 2, Pages 191-216

• Publication Jon H. Fiva and Max-Emil M. King

  Child Penalties in Politics

  The Economic Journal, Volume 134, Issue 658, February 2024, Pages 648–670

2023

• Working paper Gary W. Cox, Jon H. Fiva, Max-Emil M. King

  Bound by Borders: Voter Mobilization through Social Networks

  CESifo Working Paper No. 10718

• Working paper Alexandra Cirone, Gary W. Cox, Jon H. Fiva, Daniel M. Smith and Dawn Teele

  Gender Gaps in Political Seniority Systems

  Available at SSRN.

• Publication Dawn Teele

  Gender and the Influence of Proportional Representation: A Comment on the Peripheral Voting Thesis

  American Political Science Review, Volume 117, Issue 2, May 2023, pp. 759 - 766

• Publication Rune J. Sørensen

  Educated politicians and government efficiency: Evidence from Norwegian local government

  Rune J. Sørensen. 2023. Educated politicians and government efficiency: Evidence from Norwegian local government, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 210: 163-179.

2022

• Working paper Jon H. Fiva and Oda Nedregård

  How Does Party Discipline Affect Legislative Behavior? Evidence from Within-Session Variation in Lame Duck Status

  CESifo Working Paper No. 9697

• Working paper Jon H. Fiva and Max-Emil King

  Child Penalties in Politics

  CESifo Working Paper No. 9611

• Publication Shusei Eshima and Daniel M. Smith

  Just a Number? Voter Evaluations of Age in Candidate Choice Experiments.

  The Journal of Politics, 84(3):1856-1861.