Excited to share a new paper on youth underrepresentation in German local elections. 🗳️
Analyzing 6,400 candidates in 100 municipalities, we find: Youth are scarce in candidate pools & parties assign them lower list positions. However, voter bias only emerges for top list positions.
🆕 Knee-high to a cricket: Why young candidates don’t get elected 🦗
@anlopatina.bsky.social & Daniel Stockemer use German local election data to assess the disadvantages young candidates face, and the roots of underrepresentation for youths in the candidate pool 🏊️
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