We analyze the topical question of how the compensation of elected politicians affects the set of citizens choosing to …

parties allow like-minded citizens to, first, share the cost of running in a public election and, second, coordinate on a …

In this paper we study whether and how the belief that the gender of politicians affects their competence on different …-specific gender bias in elections which can describe both the presence of a real comparative advantage ('kernel-of-truth' case, or … investigate the relation between issue salience and women's performance using US data on House and Senate elections. Estimates of …

affiliation and gender. We conducted experimental elections in which participants made their vote choices based solely on … politicians’ faces. When choosing between female and male candidates, Democrats, and especially Democratic women, preferred female …

This paper studies the relationship between incumbents' performance and political polarization, both with theory and … better incumbent's performance leads to higher political polarization. We use the data on the incumbents' performance in …

analyze local election candidates from 2003 to 2019, paired with administrative records of criminal offenses. We demonstrate …

and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to … election relative to an analogous impact for men who closely win or lose a state legislature election. We find that the effect …

Through social media, politicians can personalize their campaigns and target specific groups of voters with an …