favor of them? We argue that re-election motives can lead politicians to take a pro-gun stance against the interests of an … them when they approach re-election. We test the predictions of the model by analyzing votes on gun-related legislation in … the U.S. Senate, in which one third of the members are up for re-election every two years. We find that senators are more …

reelection. This generates a skew distribution of signals leading to an incumbency advantage in the probability of election … politicians, thus increasing the separation of signals and improving the selection function of an election. This precommitment has …

election. The model's politico economic equilibria has several implications. Politico economic links exacerbate the responses …

election would have been more competitive due to the absence of herding and that alternative sequential structures would have …