The Incumbency Curse: Weak Parties, Term Limits, and Unfulfilled Accountability

By Marko Klašnja, R. Titiunik. American Political Science Review, 2017

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Interpreting Regression Discontinuity Designs with Multiple Cutoffs (2016, methodology): “and the Brazil examples see, respectively, Cattaneo, Frandsen and Titiunik (2015a) and Klašnja and Titiunik (2015). Figure 1 presents RD plots of the effect of the party barely winning an election on the probability of victory in the following election in both settings, using the methods in Calonico”
A Practical Introduction to Regression Discontinuity Designs (2019, methodology): “Furthermore, a third distinct empirical illustration of the methods discussed in this Element, using the data of Klašnja and Titiunik (2017), is also available, and further discussed in Cattaneo, Titiunik, and Vazquez-Bare (2019).”
Corruption and the Incumbency Disadvantage: Theory and Evidence (2015, background): “This strategy provides strong evidence that the large incumbency disadvantage found in Romanian local elections is caused by the incidence of corruption and the large seniority premium to corruption exploited by Romanian mayors. ecent studies have found strong evidence for the incumbency disadvantag”