Di Tella, Rafael; Kotti, Randy; Le Pennec-Çaldichoury, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
A key tenet of representative democracy is that politicians' discourse and policies should follow voters' preferences … local elections, 1958-2022. We first show that candidates tend to converge to the center of the ideology and complexity … focusing on elections in which they narrowly win their primary (in the U.S.) or narrowly qualify for the runoff (in France …