We analyze a model of US presidential primary elections for a given party. There are two candidates, one of whom is a higher quality candidate. Voters reside in m different states and receive noisy private information about the identity of the superior candidate. States vote in some order, and...

We analyze a model of US presidential primary elections for a given party. There are two candidates, one of whom is a higher quality candidate. Voters reside in m different states and receive noisy private information about the identity of the superior candidate. States vote in some order, and...

Represented here-in is a simple “politiconometric” study: state government spending considered as a function of party control. Leveraging fixed-effect panel regressions and an underlying dataset spanning 1,200 state-year observations, U.S. states are regressed against a variety of party...