urban, more educated and relatively wealthier municipalities. Findings are consistent with the hypothesis that politicians …

Due to its simplicity the plurality voting system is frequently used to choose a common representative or project … experimental results for the plurality voting scheme. -- efficiency ; experiments ; mechanism design ; public project ; uncertainty … ; voting rules …

Retrospective voting is a central explanation for voters' support of incumbents. Yet despite the variety of conditions … facing American cities, past research has devoted little attention to retrospective voting for mayors. Local economic … conditions are widely reported, making them one likely source of retrospective voting. To test that possibility, we turn to the …