between two potential policy outcomes of an election participate in large-scale elections when voting is costly? Using a …Altruistic punishment is a fundamental driver for cooperation in human interactions. In this paper, we expand our … understanding of this form of costly punishment to help explain a puzzle of voting behavior: why do people who are indifferent …

that are in opposition to their policy preferences. This results in the election of representatives who do not correspond … exactly to the voters' own views. An alternative voting procedure to avoid this type of election failure is proposed in … Wahl-O-Mat, which asks the user a number of questions on topical policy issues; the computer program, drawing on all the …

Independent. Back-of-the-envelope calculations suggests that this electoral penalty is sufficient to decide presidential elections …

This paper provides experimental evidence on the electoral effect of a large education reform in a developing democracy …. Despite significantly improving school quality, the policy reduced the incumbent party's presidential vote share by 3 … strong support for the policy, and variation in school-pair-level treatment effects shows that the more the policy raised …