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Do Political Parties and Politicians Improve the Quality of Life for Their Constituents?

Richardson, Brianna E, Richardson
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1502095966149285

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2017, BA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Political Science.
Individuals and households vote for politicians in hopes for improvements to the quality of life and quality of business environment. Such improvements are measured through the availability of amenities across locations. This paper aims to discover if politicians improve the quality of life and business environment through changes in housing costs and equilibrium wages. By using gubernatorial election results and hedonic regressions, I set up a natural experiment to determine if Democratic or Republican policy has more of an economic impact on firms and individuals. I find that Republican governors produce no statistically significant impact on either the quality of life or business environment, while Democrats have a tendency to slightly reduce the quality of life in some scenarios and moderately diminish the quality of business environment in all scenarios.
Shawn Rohlin (Advisor)
52 p.
Economics
urban economics, amenities, politics, quality of life, hedonic regressions

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  • Richardson, Richardson, B. E. (2017). Do Political Parties and Politicians Improve the Quality of Life for Their Constituents? [Undergraduate thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1502095966149285

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Richardson, Richardson, Brianna. Do Political Parties and Politicians Improve the Quality of Life for Their Constituents? . 2017. Kent State University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1502095966149285.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Richardson, Richardson, Brianna. "Do Political Parties and Politicians Improve the Quality of Life for Their Constituents? ." Undergraduate thesis, Kent State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1502095966149285

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