Add to ORKGWe study the role of beauty in politics using candidate photos that figured prominently in electoral campaigns. Our investigation is based on visual assessments of 1929 Finnish political candidates from 10,011 respondents (of which 3708 were Finnish). As Finland has a proportional electoral system, we are able to compare the electoral success of non-incumbent candidates representing the same party. An increase in our measure of beauty by one standard deviation is associated with an increase of 20% in the number of votes for the average non-incumbent parliamentary candidate. The relationship is unaffected by including education and occupation as control variables and withstands several other robustness checks. JEL classification
We test the effects of physical appearance on electoral outcomes for the 2013 German national electi...
Conventional wisdom, and a growing body of behavioral research, suggests that the nonverbal image of...
A flurry of recent studies indicates that candidates who simply look more capable or attractive are...
We study the role of beauty in politics using candidate photographs that figured prominently in elec...
We study the role of beauty in politics using candidate photos that figured prominently in electoral...
Pertaining to section 1: More on voters ’ stated grounds for choosing a candidate to vote for There ...
Are beautiful politicians more likely to be elected? To test this, we use evidence from Australia, a...
Are beautiful politicians more likely to be elected? To test this, the authors use evidence from Au...
Economic research shows that candidates have a higher chance of getting (re-)elected when they have ...
Several empirical studies have linked political candidates’ electoral success to their physical appe...
Economic research shows that candidates have a higher chance of getting (re-)elected when they have ...
Numerous studies document that better-looking candidates win more votes. Yet the causal mechanisms l...
A flurry of recent studies indicates that candidates who simply look more capable or attractive are ...
Recent research finds that naive survey participants ’ rapid evaluations of the facial competence of...
Given the degree to which many people value physical attractiveness in society today, it may come as...
We test the effects of physical appearance on electoral outcomes for the 2013 German national electi...
Conventional wisdom, and a growing body of behavioral research, suggests that the nonverbal image of...
A flurry of recent studies indicates that candidates who simply look more capable or attractive are...
We study the role of beauty in politics using candidate photographs that figured prominently in elec...
We study the role of beauty in politics using candidate photos that figured prominently in electoral...
Pertaining to section 1: More on voters ’ stated grounds for choosing a candidate to vote for There ...
Are beautiful politicians more likely to be elected? To test this, we use evidence from Australia, a...
Are beautiful politicians more likely to be elected? To test this, the authors use evidence from Au...
Economic research shows that candidates have a higher chance of getting (re-)elected when they have ...
Several empirical studies have linked political candidates’ electoral success to their physical appe...
Economic research shows that candidates have a higher chance of getting (re-)elected when they have ...
Numerous studies document that better-looking candidates win more votes. Yet the causal mechanisms l...
A flurry of recent studies indicates that candidates who simply look more capable or attractive are ...
Recent research finds that naive survey participants ’ rapid evaluations of the facial competence of...
Given the degree to which many people value physical attractiveness in society today, it may come as...
We test the effects of physical appearance on electoral outcomes for the 2013 German national electi...
Conventional wisdom, and a growing body of behavioral research, suggests that the nonverbal image of...
A flurry of recent studies indicates that candidates who simply look more capable or attractive are...