We study competition between political parties in repeated elections with probabilistic voting, allowing a multidimensional policy space and multiple political parties. This model entails multiple equilibria. When parties hold different opinions on some policy, they may take different policy...

Does politician quality matter for policy in representative governments? I use administrative registry data on local politicians in Finland and exploit exogenous variation generated by close electoral races that shift the quality composition of local councils to show that (i) electing more...