Research Request 2338
Bob Parcher, City Clerk
Miami Beach City Hall
1700 Convention Center Drive
Miami Beach, FL 33139
Dear Sirs:
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6/21/2005
We are professors at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and are
seeking your help in collecting data on mayoral elections for research purposes. While one can
obtain information on the names of mayors going back in time, there is no systematic data base
on their political party affiliation, vote totals, or winning margin. Such data are crucial for
understanding the degree of political competition at the local level and how it might have
changed over time, in addition to estimating the effects of local politics on various aspects of
the community. This is the first time a research institution will organize such data and make its
results available to the public, and we ask your help in making that happen.
Our one-page survey on mayoral elections is attached. We have already gathered
publicly available information on election dates and some mayors names from the Municipal
Yearbook. The remaining data to be collected from your city relates to the Total Number of
Votes Cast in each election, Party Affiliation of the mayors and 2nd place candidates, and the
respective Number of Votes received and Vote Share (percentage of votes received) for the top
two candidates.
We greatly appreciate your time and effort to take this survey. Please use the envelope
enclosed to remit your completed survey (or fax it to 215.573.2220). If election information is
not available in your office, we would appreciate your reference to other sources. Local
decision makers can greatly benefit from this project, as its subject is of special interest these
days. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us by phone or email.
Sincerely,
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Prof. Fernando Ferreira
The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
215-898-7181
fferreir@wharton.upenn.edu
Prof. Joe Gyourko
The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
215-898-3003
gyourko@wharton.upenn.edu
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