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

, then politicians who are very competent on both issues will switch. If voters have superior information on a politician … than the other, the politicians are more likely to campaign on the more important issue. If politicians are able to … informed and better off, but has an ambiguous effect on politicians' utility. The model and the results may help understand …

In 2010, we informed a random set of Delhi councilors, some ineligible for re-election in their current ward, that a …

shaping the quality of politicians from both the supply and demand sides of politics. The model highlights that the patterns …

When voters fear that politicians may have a right-wing bias or that they may be influenced or corrupted by the rich … right. Truly right-wing politicians respond by choosing more moderate, or even left-of-center policies. This populist bias … polarization between the policy preferences of the median voter and right-wing politicians; when politicians are indeed more likely …

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 … information during campaigns but that the extent of this reliance depends upon the degree and direction of any bias …

politicians, thus increasing the separation of signals and improving the selection function of an election. This precommitment has …Much literature on political behavior treats politicians as motivated by reelection, choosing actions to signal their … reelection. This generates a skew distribution of signals leading to an incumbency advantage in the probability of election …

some voters to abandon norms of reciprocity—thus accepting gifts from politicians but voting for their preferred candidate …