appearance of 1,357 Finnish political candidates. We find that political candidates on the right are better looking in both …

-ideological voters, who care about national and local policies, strongly prefer experts. We show that parties compete on good politicians … prediction. We find that politicians with higher ex-ante quality − as measured by years of schooling, previous market income, and …, the characteristics of politicians belonging to opposite parties converge to high-quality levels in close races …

findings indicate that voters keep incumbent politicians accountable by conditioning their vote on the observed effects of …

results suggest that over-reliance on elections to discipline politicians is misplaced …

politicians' quality is positively affected by their wage and apply a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design relying on the fact …

How can we motivate good politicians those that will carry out policy that is responsive to citizens' preferences to …