We test whether politicians can use direct contact to reconnect with citizens, increase turnout, and win votes. During …

We develop a competitive equilibrium theory of a market for votes. Before voting on a binary issue, individuals may buy … and the market generates welfare losses, relative to simple majority voting, if the committee is large enough. We test the …

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 …

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 …

single point. This strategic ambiguity balances voter beliefs about the appeal of candidates both to the median voter and to … the campaign contributors. If primaries precede a general election, they add another incentive for ambiguity, because in … policy space for the general election. Ambiguity has an option value …

This paper investigates the relationship between media bias and the influence of the media on voting in the context of …

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 …