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Does democracy turn a leader ’ s frown upside down ? Evidence from state portraits
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Collin, Matthew |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Abstract | This paper tests an assertion once made by Paul Collier: whether national leaders in democratic countries are more likely to smile in their state photograph than their autocratic counterparts. Using a complete cross section of state portraits for 2004, I construct several measures of the intensity of a national leader’s smile using web surveys, Mechanical Turk responses and an emotion detection algorithm. I find that a one standard deviation increase in polity is associated with approximately a 0.250.3 standard deviation increase in measures of smiling or observed happiness. To investigate whether this might be driven by electoral competition specifically, I use data from US Senate and Gubernatorial elections to show that candidates (both winners and losers) in close elections have a greater propensity to smile during closer elections. I then discuss implications and future research. |
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| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
