before the election. Our empirical results suggest that our model performs at least as well and often better than alternative …

structure about donors - on donations, election outcomes, political candidates' policy choices, and welfare. Three alternative …

time across issues in their floor speeches. Consistent with the theory, we find evidence of political posturing due to …

main opponents. At the same time, formally winning the election does not guarantee staying in power. We present a unified …

levels of democracy. In developed countries, especially old democracies, election-year deficits actually reduce the … countries and in new democracies, but voters are affected by growth over the leader's term in office rather than in the election …

can affect voter turnout and election outcomes. We do so using historical data on more than 2,000 races in Florida and … small effect on turnout. Similarly, we also show under a range of conservative assumptions that very few election results … or critics were true, strict identification laws are unlikely to have a meaningful impact on turnout or election outcomes …

forty years. I develop a simple optimizing model of the union decision to hold a representation election that can account …I establish four facts regarding the pattern of NLRB supervised representation election activity over the past 45 years …: 1) the quantity of election activity has fallen sharply and discontinuously since the mid-70's after increasing between …

In this paper, we assess the degree to which four of the most commonly used models of risky decision making can explain … enough to approximate Kahnenman and Tversky's prospect theory and that for certain parametric values will yield the expected … explain the decision-making behavior of the majority of our subjects. Surprisingly, we find that the choice behavior of the …