assigned to treatment and control groups. A few days before Election Day, the treatment group received a face-to-face contact … from a coalition of nonpartisan student and community organizations, encouraging them to vote. After the election, voter …

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 …

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

Politicians regularly underperform in their job duties due to the obscurity of their actions to constituents. In this … study, we investigate the effects of a local NGO's initiative to improve the transparency of politicians' performance in a … multi-year field experiment involving 408 politicians in 20 Ugandan district governments between the 2011 and 2016 elections …

of experimentation is suboptimal, taking decisions by direct democracy, or electing risk-loving politicians, could …