If voters are fully rational and have negligible cognition costs, ballot layout should not affect election outcomes. In … from the 2003 California Recall Election. We find that the voteshares of minor candidates almost double when their names … the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election and the 2004 Washington Gubernatorial Election. We explore which voting technology …

on higher candidate salience in small municipalities. We also quantify the election advantage of a slate being randomly …

politicians’ rents than proportional representation. We test these predictions using micro data for the mixed-member Italian House …

, they will be more likely to run for election; for the same reason, they will also be more likely to shirk once elected … empirical evidence shows that bad but dedicated politicians come along with good but not fully committed politicians. There is … in fact a non-negligible fraction of citizens with remarkably high pre-election income who are appointed in parliament …

parliamentary election is investigated, using cross-provincial data, and controlling for other social, political and economic …