voters. To do so, it proposes a model of elections where political ability is ex-ante unknown and investment in reforms is … unobservable. On the one hand, elections improve accountability and allow to keep well-performing incumbents. On the other …

government and a challenger party in opposition compete in elections by choosing the issues that will key out their campaigns … presidential election in 2004. …

attacks is its impact on the results of democratic elections. We use the electoral consequences of the terrorist attacks of … days before the 2004 Congressional Election, which allows the use of credible identification criteria. In particular, we … use the advance voting by Spanish residents abroad, who cast their vote before the terrorist attack, to identify the …

these notions to date, encompassing 219 elections in 87 countries since the 19th century, are presented. The analysis gives …

This paper analyzes a two-alternative voting model with the distinctive feature that voters have preferences over … margins of victory. We study voting contests with a finite as well as an infinite number of voters, and with and without … mandatory voting. The main result of the paper is the existence and characterization of a unique equilibrium outcome in all …