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Information Aggregation in Stratified Societies
Agranov, Marina; Eilat, Ran; Sonin, Konstantin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We analyze a model of political competition in which the elite forms endogenously to aggregate information and advise the uninformed median voter which candidate to choose. The median voter knows whether or not the endorsed candidate is biased toward the elites, but might still prefer the biased...
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Do Interactions with Candidates Increase Voter Support and Participation? Experimental Evidence from Italy
Cantoni, Enrico - 2020
We test whether politicians can use direct contact to reconnect with citizens, increase turnout, and win votes. During …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481628
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Coordination and Incumbency Advantage in Multi-Party Systems - Evidence from French Elections
Dano, Kevin; Ferlenga, Francesco; Galasso, Vincenzo; Le … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
practice, incumbency advantage and coordination issues may lead to the (re)election of bad politicians. We ask whether these …In theory, free and fair elections can improve the selection of politicians and incentivize them to exert effort. In … elections, we find that winning an election increases candidates' chances to win the next election by 25.1 percentage points …
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Single-Issue Campaigns and Multidimensional Politics
Egorov, Georgy - 2015
, 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457402
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Is it the Message or the Messenger? Examining Movement in Immigration Beliefs
Afrouzi, Hassan; Arteaga, Carolina; Weisburst, Emily - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
that matters? Using a large-scale experiment we decompose the relative importance of partisan messages vs leader sources …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322773
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Campaign Connections
Bazzi, Samuel; Labanca, Claudio - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper explores the labor market returns to working on a victorious political campaign. Using unique administrative data from Brazil, we track the earnings and employment of campaign workers before and after close elections spanning nearly 20 years. We identify sizable returns to working for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287384
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Public Information is an Incentive for Politicians : Experimental Evidence from Delhi Elections
Banerjee, Abhijit - 2020
In 2010, we informed a random set of Delhi councilors, some ineligible for re-election in their current ward, that a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481883
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Progress and Perspectives in the Study of Political Selection
Dal Bó, Ernesto - 2018
shaping the quality of politicians from both the supply and demand sides of politics. The model highlights that the patterns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012452939
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Pack-Crack-Pack : Gerrymandering with Differential Turnout
Bouton, Laurent; Génicot, Garance; Castanheira, Micael; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper studies the manipulation of electoral maps by political parties, known as gerrymandering. At the core of our analysis is the recognition that districts must have the same population size but only voters matter for electoral incentives. Using a novel model of gerrymandering that allows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322829
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Career Concerns and the Dynamics of Electoral Accountability
Iaryczower, Matiás; Meirowitz, Adam; Lopez-Moctezuma, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Quantifying the value that legislators give to reelection relative to policy is crucial to understanding electoral accountability. We estimate the preferences for office and policy of members of the US Senate, using a structural approach that exploits variation in polls, position-taking and...
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