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We show that a large electorate of ignorant voters can succeed in establishing high levels of electoral accountability. In our model an incumbent politician is confronted with a large number of voters who receive very noisy signals about her performance. We find that the accountability problem...
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Although formal education is often considered an indicator of political leaders' quality, the evidence on the effectiveness of educated leaders is mixed. Besides, minimum education qualifications are increasingly being used as requirements for contesting elections, making it critical to...
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In 2001, the state parliament of the German federal state of Hesse abolished a 5 percent legal electoral threshold for … threshold. The dataset covers all 426 Hessian municipalities over the period 1989-2011. Our results suggest that the seat and …
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economic inequality affects voting and other forms of political participation. This evidence is largely driven by advanced …. In line with prior theoretical expectations, we find a negative association between inequality and voting for the …
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What explains the persistence of racial or ethnic inequalities in political representation, in the absence of strongly politicized racial or ethnic cleavages? This paper uses new data to demonstrate a substantial racial gap between voters and politicians in Brazil. We show that this disparity is...
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stature. Using data from lab-in-the-field experiments in rural India with local politicians and non-politician participants …
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Mali long seemed a model, low-income democracy. Yet, in a few short weeks in early 2012, more than half of the territory came under the military control of an Islamist secessionist movement, and a military coup deposed the democratically-elected government in the capital. Given the substantial...
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This study explores the effects of foreign aid on democracy in Mozambique during the last decade. Aid for democracy built on historic relationships forged between donors and the government during the wartime humanitarian emergency. Foreign aid played an important role in Mozambique's transition...
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Barrington Moore's famous line 'no bourgeoisie, no democracy' is one of the most quoted claims in political science. But has the rise of the African middle class promoted democratic consolidation? This paper uses the case of Kenya to investigate the attitudes and behaviours of the middle class....
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, remains strictly above a threshold. Moreover, there may be one-candidate equilibria in which the only candidate is not the one …
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