empirical evidence shows that bad but dedicated politicians come along with good but not fully committed politicians. There is …

politicians' rents than proportional representation. We test these predictions using micro data for the mixed-member Italian House …

-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 …