ideological policy dimension. Voters achieve this outcome by following a simple lexicographic voting strategy. They cast their …

parties? Democratic theory assumes that offering more information to voters will enhance electoral accountability. However, if … copious corruption not only decreases incumbent support in local elections in Mexico, but also decreases voter turnout … flows of information are necessary, they may be insufficient to improve political accountability, since voters may respond …

has a hard time providing an instrumental explanation for the existence of "accountability journalism". According to the … apply when a group of voters shares a common goal such as accountability and information is delivered via mass media. In …

probability before the election (Maskin and Tirole's "feedback" case). In the three-period case, with two elections, the dynamic …

In this paper we analyze the consequences of the fairness recommendation of the Venice Commission in allocating voting …

studies strategic voting when voters have pure common values but may be ambiguity averse -- exhibit Ellsberg-type behavior …

Who will vote quadratically in large-N elections under quadratic voting (QV)? First, who will vote? Although the core … examine reasons that, in large-N elections, the number of votes that an individual casts may deviate substantially from that …, voting behavior and outcomes would be determined predominately by social and psychological forces, would thereby exhibit few …

Prominent theory research on voting uses models in which expected pivotality drives voters' turnout decisions and hence … determines voting outcomes. It is recognized, however, that such work is at odds with Downs's paradox: in practice, many …. Accordingly, we examine a complementary model of large-N elections at the opposite end of the spectrum, where pivotality effects …

. The results show that realized investment ratios decreased in years when state elections occurred relative to the average … develop better before state elections and worse after state elections. The second part of this dissertation investigates how … politicians who vote against the party line in roll-call votes. The results do not show that parties account for the voting …