, potential candidates compete in a contest to become their party's nominee. At the election stage, the nominated candidates … campaign by making non-binding promises to voters. Confirming the model's key predictions, we find in the experiment that …

who try to win via illicit means which crowds out the best performers. We use a laboratory experiment to explore the role … contest versus those who selected into a comparable noncompetitive pay scheme. …

receive restricted access (a lower share). In a laboratory experiment Rank-Order-VCM elicits median contributions equal to the …

contest phase. While players in the treatment setup make a conscious decision on how much to invest in the contest, this … especially for groups on the losing side of the contest: Given the same level of sunk costs, contributions to the public good are … lower for groups which failed to be successful in the preceding between-group contest. Furthermore, this detrimental effect …