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We construct an election game to study the electoral impacts of biased candidate endorsements. We derive a set of … testable predictions. We test these in a laboratory experiment and find that observed election outcomes and vote shares are … well predicted. We find no support, however, for our prediction that the relationship between election outcome and the …
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This paper analyzes how political accountability affects the incentives of policy makers to learn through experimentation with new policies. It shows that when voters face an inference problem on the competence level of policy makers, reelection concerns reduce experimentation incentives to the...
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The expression "cash-for-votes" describes a form of vote buying in which candidates for office pay individuals in exchange for their votes. That practice undermines the functioning of democracy but is pervasive in many parts of the world, especially in the Global South. We discuss estimates of...
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