I propose a framework in which individual political participation can take two distinct forms, voting and contributing … shows that, even though each contribution has a negligible impact, the interaction between contributions and voting leads to … elections. In particular, inequality increases contributions to Republicans, but not to Democrats, as predicted by the model. …

unchanged. The evidence on polarization and turnout is consistent with a prevalence of the ideology effect in the case of TV, as … both of them decreased. Increased turnout associated with radio exposure is in turn consistent with a role for the …

theories predict either no effect or a decrease in giving, whereas impure altruism theory predicts an increase in giving with … shared the same. The results are in line with the prediction of the impure altruism theory. …

. In the model agents receive heterogeneous utility from pure and impure altruism (Andreoni, 1989) that permits warm glow … to vary between monetary donations and volunteering, thus allowing preferences for impure altruism to rationalize … inefficient allocation decisions. We define a measure of the price of impure altruism as the additional proportion of income …

states' politics and elections. Thus, if citizens punish political capture, increases in concentration of special interest …

I analyze strategic voting incentives in large elections with three candidates when voting takes place sequentially …' preferences are drawn. If a candidate finishes last in an early voting round, voters deduce that this candidate is likely to be … less popular amongst the remaining voters, and the remaining voters almost always have an incentive to stop voting for this …