newspaper would report on their performance shortly prior to the 2012 city elections. Using slum dwellers' spending preferences …

We propose a new game theoretic approach to modeling large elections that overcomes the "paradox of voting" in a costly … voting framework, without reliance on the assumption of ad hoc preferences for voting. The key innovation that we propose is … literature as it is consistent with the empirical evidence. Incorporating this policy rule into a costly voting model with …

contributions affect elections. Then we show how the candidates may wish to announce a range of policy preferences, rather than a … the primaries the candidates do not want to reveal too much information, to maintain some freedom of movement in the …We analyze a model in which voters are uncertain about the policy preferences of candidates. Two forces affect the …

Much literature on political behavior treats politicians as motivated by reelection, choosing actions to signal their …. Second, voters can exploit the signalling behavior of politicians by precommitting to a higher threshold for signals received …. Raising the threshold discourages signalling effort by low quality politicians but encourages effort by high quality …

the 2014 Italian municipal elections, we randomly assigned 26,000 voters to receive visits from city council candidates …We test whether politicians can use direct contact to reconnect with citizens, increase turnout, and win votes. During …, canvassers supporting the candidates' list, or to a control group. While canvassers’ visits increased turnout by 1.8 percentage …

desired over multiple decisions. During the 2006 student elections at Columbia University, we tested a simple version of this …

The ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 officially granted voting rights to women across the United States …-level barriers to voting limited the ability of black women to exercise that right until the Voting Rights Act of 1965.Institutional …

interest group's campaign contributions to politicians. We uncover a robust hump-shaped relationship between the voting share … estimates of electoral uncertainty and politicians effectiveness as perceived by the interest groups. Our approach also …

This paper investigates the relationship between media bias and the influence of the media on voting in the context of … newspaper endorsements. We first develop a simple econometric model in which voters choose candidates under uncertainty and rely … on endorsements from better informed sources. Newspapers are potentially biased in favor of one of the candidates and …

This paper analyzes the effort allocation choices of incumbent politicians when voters are uncertain about politician … would strictly prefer to have a consensus policy implemented. As such, the desire of politicians to convince voters that … allocations. Transparency over the politicians' effort choices can re-enforce the distortions, and for some parameters can be bad …