democracies with larger political polarization, may show a larger share of bad to good dynastic politicians, but not necessarily a … policies and the success of dynastic politicians. Electoral success of politicians depends on their ability to implement better … policies for the voters because campaign promises are empty. Good politicians are more likely to implement the policy that …

. The paper tests the hypothesis cross‐nationally, using data on all multiparty elections held in the world in the period … 1975 - 2010, and subnationally, using a new data set on subnational election results and oil production in Nigeria. Our …

We consider a canonical two-period model of elections with adverse selection (hidden preferences) and moral hazard … (hidden actions), in which neither voters nor politicians can commit to future choices. We prove existence of electoral …

This is the third of four papers devoted to the 2021 German federal elections continuing our analysis of the 2009, 2013 … and 2017 Bundestag elections. Currently, only China has a parliament larger than the German Bundestag, which still grows …

defense spending?'-Yes/No, etc.), and the parties answer to these questions before the elections - as required by the Wahl …This is the last of four papers devoted to the 2021 German federal elections continuing our analysis of the 2009, 2013 … and 2017 Bundestag elections. It is shown that the policy representation by the Bundestag could be improved using the …

change in the existing election system. But a mathematical solution to the problem does not require such changes and is much …