The Effect of Electoral Competitiveness on Incumbent Behavior

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The Neyman— Rubin Model of Causal Inference and Estimation Via Matching Methods (2008, background): “…and Mahalanobis distance matching, and it has been used by a variety of researchers (e.g., Bonney and Minozzi 2007; Brady and Hui 2006; Gilligan and Sergenti 2006; Gordon and Huber 2007; Herron and Wand forthcoming; Morgan and Harding 2006; Lenz and Ladd 2006; Park 2006; Raessler and Rubin 2005 ).”
Multivariate and Propensity Score Matching Software with Automated Balance Optimization: The Matching Package for R (2008, unknown): “Diamond and Sekhon (2005) and Sekhon and Grieve (2011) propose a matching algorithm, genetic matching (GenMatch), that maximizes the balance of observed covariates between treated and control groups.”
Disentangling Accountability and Competence in Elections: Evidence from U.S. Term Limits (2011, background): “Gordon and Huber (2007) ﬁnd that judges in partisan competitive systems sentence more punitively than those in retention systems.”