Results from a new experiment shed light on the effects of voter information on vote buying and incumbent advantage …. The treatment provided voters with information about a major spending program and the proposed allocations and promises of … mayoral candidates just prior to municipal elections. It left voters more knowledgeable about candidates' proposed policies …

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 …

In this short note, we use data from different elections in the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia between 1975 and … deal with the endogeneity of voter turnout by using election day rain as an instrumental variable. Our particular … contribution is the comparison of municipal and state elections. …