We study electoral competition among politicians who are heterogeneous both in competence and in how much they care … politicians may have stronger incentives to behave opportunistically if other politicians are more likely to behave … politicians’ incentives to behave opportunistically increase with politicians’ pay and with polarization of policy preferences. …

survey experiment among Dutch politicians, we find that politicians conform their expressed opinion about policy experiments … neither are politicians when we tell them that voters are not. …

qualityhas been acquired or not, we compare the performance of a delegation structure with that oftwo voting procedures …. Delegation makes one's acceptance decision pivotal by definition.The decisiveness of one's vote in a voting procedure depends on …

voting, where voters choose from three options. We are interested in the occurrence of strategic voting in an environment … experimental data. Our results indeed show that strategic voting arises, the extent of which depends on (i) the availability of … results show that information serves as a coordination device where strategic voting does not harm the plurality …

-binding price requests. Using a laboratory experiment, we examine how competition moderates the way such cheap-talk communication …

Politicians differ in their ability to implement some policy. In an election, candidates make commitments regarding the …

prefer. To answer this question, I design a laboratory experiment in which participants choose voting systems. I find that …There are many situations in which different groups make collective decisions by committee voting, with each group … represented by a single person. A natural question is what voting system such a committee should use. Concepts based on voting …

I analyze Dutch panel data that contains rich information on voting, political opinions, and personality traits. I show … adversarial preferences predict voting independently from these traits - and often with larger effect sizes. The complex Dutch …-right axis, a social progressive-conservative axis, and a populism axis. Competitiveness predicts voting for economically right …