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5) Electoral returns were even higher for politicians who also engaged in credit-claiming on social media 📱—
5) Electoral returns were even higher for politicians who also engaged in credit-claiming on social media 📱—
4) Most funds were channelled to MP’s electoral strongholds— note we are in an open-list, preference vote system 🗳️
Using a counterfactual analysis, we find that this pork-barreling strategy delivered significant electoral returns.
4) Most funds were channelled to MP’s electoral strongholds— note we are in an open-list, preference vote system 🗳️
Using a counterfactual analysis, we find that this pork-barreling strategy delivered significant electoral returns.
3) We observe both a reciprocal and universalistic behavior: nearly all politicians agree, and everyone gets a (weighted) piece of the cake 🍰
3) We observe both a reciprocal and universalistic behavior: nearly all politicians agree, and everyone gets a (weighted) piece of the cake 🍰
2) We match these data with credit-claiming posts on social media (example below 👇), and with municipality-level preference vote results (~1,500 municipalities) from two election rounds—before and after the projects.
2) We match these data with credit-claiming posts on social media (example below 👇), and with municipality-level preference vote results (~1,500 municipalities) from two election rounds—before and after the projects.
1) We extract project–politician links by applying LLMs to thousands of resolutions from the Lombardia Regional Assembly (example in the figure 👇)
1) We extract project–politician links by applying LLMs to thousands of resolutions from the Lombardia Regional Assembly (example in the figure 👇)