In most elections, voters care about several issues, but candidates may have to choose only a few to build their … one. In this paper, I study a model of elections where voters care about the candidates' competences (or positions) over …, then politicians who are very competent on both issues will switch. If voters have superior information on a politician …

---voters are pessimistic about common-interest opportunities, politicians behave in a purely partisan manner that shuts down voter … common-interest reforms are in fact frequently feasible. The model shows how elite and mass polarization are intertwined …, with politicians engaging in strategically polarized and polarizing behavior which leads to pessimistic beliefs among …

exposed across 1427 villages--in Uganda's 2016 elections. Working with civil society organizations, we designed the study to … some voters to abandon norms of reciprocity--thus accepting gifts from politicians but voting for their preferred candidate …

We use 201,000 observations from repeated survey data in 61 elections and 9 OECD countries since 1952 to study the …. We find that the share of voters who state a pre-election vote intention corresponding to their final vote choice … increases by 15 percentage points in the two months preceding the election. Changes in individual vote choices mostly result …

We test whether politicians can use direct contact to reconnect with citizens, increase turnout, and win votes. During … the 2014 Italian municipal elections, we randomly assigned 26,000 voters to receive visits from city council candidates …

In 2010, we informed a random set of Delhi councilors, some ineligible for re-election in their current ward, that a … newspaper would report on their performance shortly prior to the 2012 city elections. Using slum dwellers' spending preferences …

interest group's campaign contributions to politicians. We uncover a robust hump-shaped relationship between the voting share … estimates of electoral uncertainty and politicians effectiveness as perceived by the interest groups. Our approach also … implicitly delivers a novel method for estimating the impact of campaign spending on election outcomes: we find that an …

election would have been more competitive due to the absence of herding and that alternative sequential structures would have …

This paper analyzes the effort allocation choices of incumbent politicians when voters are uncertain about politician … would strictly prefer to have a consensus policy implemented. As such, the desire of politicians to convince voters that … allocations. Transparency over the politicians' effort choices can re-enforce the distortions, and for some parameters can be bad …