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Do Lawyers Get More Votes?
American Review of Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2020-04-02 , DOI: 10.1080/02722011.2020.1771527
Semra Sevi 1 , André Blais 1 , Danielle Mayer 1
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ABSTRACT In many western democracies, law has been the dominant occupational background of politicians. This raises the question whether lawyers get more votes when they run for election compared to non-lawyers. To our knowledge, this question has not been examined empirically over an extended period of time. Our study aims to fill this lacuna. We collected longitudinal data about the careers of all candidates in Canadian federal elections from 1921 to 2015. Our dataset is composed of about 32,000 observations including the occupation and electoral performance of every candidate who ran for office. Our analysis shows that lawyers do get more votes but that their personal electoral boost is very small.

中文翻译:

律师会获得更多选票吗?

摘要 在许多西方民主国家,法律一直是政治家的主要职业背景。这就提出了一个问题,与非律师相比,律师在竞选时是否会获得更多选票。据我们所知,这个问题在很长一段时间内还没有经过实证检验。我们的研究旨在填补这一空白。我们收集了 1921 年至 2015 年加拿大联邦选举中所有候选人职业生涯的纵向数据。我们的数据集由大约 32,000 个观察结果组成,包括每个竞选公职的候选人的职业和选举表现。我们的分析表明,律师确实获得了更多选票,但他们个人的选举推动力非常小。
更新日期:2020-04-02
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