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

: judiciary, bureaucracy, and competition policy. To test our framework, we introduce a new panel of institutional reform measures …

-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 …

capital we speculate that this is the result of incumbent politicians using their resources to establish clienteles. …

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

to information. However, evidence from a post-intervention online experiment shows that ideological alignment affects …

Do young politicians prioritize other types of municipal spending than old politicians? We study this question using …