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Exposing Corruption : Can Electoral Competition Discipline Politicians?

Afridi, Farzana - 2016

political competition is too high or too low. We first build a simple game theoretic model to capture the effect of electoral … competition on corruption. We show that in equilibrium, corruption has a U-shaped relationship with electoral competition. If the … election is safe for the incumbent (low competition) or if it is extremely fragile (high competition) then corruption is higher …

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The Right Look : Conservative Politicians Look Better and Their Voters Reward it

Berggren, Niclas - 2011

Previous research has established that good-looking political candidates win more votes. We extend this line of research by examining differences between parties on the left and on the right of the political spectrum. Our study combines data on personal votes in real elections with a web survey...

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Voting as a War of Attrition

Kwiek, Maksymilian - 2018

We study communication in committees selecting one of two alternatives when consensus is required and agents have private information about their preferences. Delaying the decision is costly, so a form of multiplayer war of attrition emerges. Waiting allows voters to express the intensity of...

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How Do Voters Respond to Information? Evidence from a Randomized Campaign

Kendall, Chad - 2013

Rational voters update their subjective beliefs about candidates' attributes with the arrival of information, and subsequently base their votes on these beliefs. Information accrual is, however, endogenous to voters' types and difficult to identify in observational studies. In a large scale...

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Persuasion and Gender : Experimental Evidence from Two Political Campaigns

Galasso, Vincenzo - 2016

This paper investigates the differential response of male and female voters to competitive persuasion in political campaigns. We implemented a survey experiment during the (mixed gender) electoral race for mayor in Milan (2011), and a field experiment during the (same gender) electoral race for...

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When is Voting Optimal?

Ben-Yashar, Ruth - 2014

We consider a framework where the optimal decision rule determining the collective choice depends in a simple way on the decision makers' posterior probabilities of a particular state of nature. Nevertheless, voting is generally an inefficient way to make collective choices and this paper sheds...

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Downstream Effects of Voting on Turnout and Political Preferences : Long-Run Evidence from the UK

Jessen, Jonas; Kühnle, Daniel; Wagner, Markus - 2021

Does voting have downstream consequences for turnout and political preferences? While research initially showed strong support for the notion that the experience of voting fosters civic habits and political engagement, recent work has cast doubt on how universal these patterns are. We contribute...

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Immigrant Voters, Taxation and the Size of the Welfare State

Chevalier, Arnaud - 2018

This paper studies the impact of immigration on public policy setting. As a natural experiment, we exploit the sudden arrival of eight million forced migrants in West Germany after World War II. These migrants were on average poorer than the West German population, but unlike most international...

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Voting with Feet : Community Choice in Social Dilemmas

Gürerk, Özgür - 2010

Economic and social interactions often take place in open communities but the dynamics of the community choice process and its impact on cooperation of its members are yet not well understood. We experimentally investigate community choice in social dilemmas. Participants repeatedly choose...

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Meet the Press : How Voters and Politicians Respond to Newspaper Entry and Exit

Drago, Francesco - 2013

politicians accountable once they are in office. Competition plays a relevant role, as the effects are not limited to the first …

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