Introduction : new rules, old practices -- Money and candidate quality -- Adapting to the mixed system -- Spending and vote shares -- Party strategies and money politics -- The evolution of support groups -- The creation and costs of informal norms -- Conclusion -- Appendixes -- References --...

This paper studies the political determinants of inequality in government interventions under the majoritarian and proportional representation systems. Using a model of electoral competition with targetable government intervention and heterogeneous localities, we uncover a novel relative...