analysis is the recognition that districts must have the same population size but only voters matter for electoral incentives …

determinants of national spending on local public goods in a three-stage game of campaign rhetoric, voting, and legislative …

One frequently overlooked aspect of the U.S.-style electoral college system is that it discourages election fraud. In a … presidential election based on the popular vote, competing political parties are motivated to manipulate votes in areas where they … electoral college system provides more effective protection against election fraud compared to the popular vote system. While …

with Duverger's predictions, coordination forces are strong in majority runoff elections. We indeed observe similar levels … of coordination under both rules, even when sincere voting is an equilibrium only under majority runoff. Our results …

multiple decisions. During the 2006 student elections at Columbia University, we tested a simple version of this idea: voters … protection of strongly held minority preferences. The challenge is to do so while treating every voter equally and preserving … aggregate welfare. One possible solution is <i>Storable Votes</i>: granting each voter a budget of votes to cast as desired over …

types to voters. We identify two novel implications of models in which signalling incentives are important. First, because … reelection. This generates a skew distribution of signals leading to an incumbency advantage in the probability of election …. Second, voters can exploit the signalling behavior of politicians by precommitting to a higher threshold for signals received …

voters' mental well-being. Nonetheless, researchers have yet to establish whether elections actually make people sick, and if …Anecdotal reports and small-scale studies suggest that elections are stressful, and might lead to a deterioration in … that elections increased health care use and expense only during legally specified campaign periods by as much as 19 …

the 2014 Italian municipal elections, we randomly assigned 26,000 voters to receive visits from city council candidates … from focusing on securing the preferences of active voters …

the uninformed median voter which candidate to choose. The median voter knows whether or not the endorsed candidate is … which the median voter follows the elite's advice. A higher cost of redistribution minimizes the elite's information …

Evidence on the relationship between political contributions and legislators' voting behavior is marred by concerns … two-stage least squares estimation procedure to predict the effect of voting behavior on political contributions …. Following previous research, we find that a legislator's proportion daughters has a significant effect on voting behavior for …