model shows that fiscal rules negatively affect the share of high education politicians willing to run for office when the … share of politicians biased in favor of public spending is sufficiently low. We test the predictions of the model using data … shows that fiscal rules negatively affect politicians’ education and that municipalities where our proxy for politicians …

This dissertation consists of six self-contained chapters that are related to the behavior of firms and politicians in … partisanship and self-interest of politicians shape their ethos and behavior. Chapter 5 describes how partisanship shapes the … attitudes and actions of politicians in Germany. The results show that German state politicians' and governments' words differed …

The literature on the rational PBC suggests that politicians systematically manipulate economic and fiscal conditions …

We examine whether conservative politicians are less likely to support same-sex marriage when they run for office in … around 1.3 percentage points. We conjecture that politicians are election-motivated – even when submitting roll-call votes on …

limits on discretion are desirable when politicians do not share the electorate's policy preferences. Optimal political …

government expenditure. An implication is that budgetary rules are seen as necessary to constrain politicians' tax and spending …