regression discontinuity design with millions of observations suggests that advertising's impact on elections is largely due to …

voters' preferences. We investigate the reverse effect: Are the electorates' policy preferences responsive to party positions …, implying endogeneity of policy preferences. The information treatment also affects non-partisan swing voters. …

-share-per-seat measures. Whether elections under multimember proportional representation systems are judged more or less competitive than … single-member plurality or runoff elections depends directly on the units in which competitiveness is assessed (and hence on …

parliamentary elections and their electoral success. To identify local-level variation in urbanization, we leverage exogenous … changes to the boundaries of electoral constituencies in the 1928, 1932, and 1936 French parliamentary elections. The results …

, we show that when voters have this bias, it decreases pandering by the incumbent, and can raise voter welfare as a … probability before the election (Maskin and Tirole's "feedback" case). In the three-period case, with two elections, the dynamic … political agency setting. In the baseline two-period case where only the politician's actions are observable before the election …

between two potential policy outcomes of an election participate in large-scale elections when voting is costly? Using a … simple voting experiment, we show that many voters are willing to engage in voting as a form of punishment, even when voting … is costly and the voter has no monetary stake in the election outcome. In our sample, we observe that at least fourteen …

decides to run and the policy position it takes and (b) voters' response under different electoral systems. We test these … predictions using data on Italian municipal elections over the 2009-2019 period and focusing on the electoral outcomes of the Five … municipalities where there is a large share of dissatisfied voters; (ii) when the populist runs, turnout increases under both Single …

We ask three questions. First, do election systems differ in how they translate physical attractiveness of candidates … German election system that combines first-past-the-post election with party-list proportional representation, our results … show that plurality elections provide more scope for translating physical attractiveness into electoral success than …

parties allow like-minded citizens to, first, share the cost of running in a public election and, second, coordinate on a … median voter model and the citizen candidate model. In one-party equilibria, the median voter can be worse off than in all …

the surprise 2016 election of Trump to identify the effects of a shift in political power on one of the most consequential …