alternate in power, and in which governments choose primary expenditure and taxes to minimize deviations from politically … which primary expenditure and taxes follow feedback rules which go in the direction of stabilizing the debt to GDP ratio …. However, this stabilization incentive is weaker in election years. The model also predicts potential partisan differences in …

candidates attach little value to information because they perceive that voting itself will have little value. Voters that are ex … impact of increased political knowledge on turnout is asymmetric: New information increase the probability of voting of … information acquisition and turnout that combines the Riker-Ordeshook (1968) approach to voting behaviour with the Becker (1965 …

the next elections, although it is mandatory in Belgium for all adults to vote. The findings of this case study …

incumbent politicians can improve their re-election probability by attracting swing voters in key states through strategic trade …

substantial literature on ‘economic voting’ suggests—but also with the electorate’s wider well-being. A country’s aggregate level …

interpreted as the reduced form of various political economy models of voting and lobbying. We consider three special cases: a … median voter model, a probabilistic voting model, and an ‘influence for sale’ model. In all three cases conditions exist that …

the probabilistic voting model in political economy. Effects persist after the cash transfer program ends. We estimate …

proxies of information supply on mass media. Using survey data from the 1997 British General Election Study, I show that … political knowledge has a sizeable influence on the probability of voting and that mass media play an important role in …