-existing bans, focusing on gubernatorial elections. The results show an 11 percentage point increase in the share of Republican TV …. Negative campaigning also intensified, with a 5.5 percentage point rise in the share of attack ads. Survey and election data …

Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of a democratic system, but elections are common in other regimes as well …. Such an election might be a pure farce, with the incumbents getting close to 100% of the vote. In other instances … international observers, all to make elections appear fair. In our model, the incumbent is informed about his popularity, and having …

We study the problem of aggregating private information in elections with two or more alternatives. We characterize …

during an election day. Using a pivotal costly voting model of elections in which voters have privately observed preferences …Electoral legislation varies across countries and within countries over time, and across different types of elections … in terms of how it allows publication of intermediate election results including turnout and candidates' vote shares …

The modern Condorcet jury theorem states that under weak conditions, when voters have common interests, elections will … aggregate information when the population is large, in any equilibrium. Here, we study the performance of large elections with …

–2014). Relating tax reforms to the timing of elections, we examine electoral cycles in tax reforms. Our results show that politicians … postpone tax rate increases to after elections. A key innovation of our data set is the coverage of harmonized indices for six …

and election results in political elections where non-establishment candidates are on the ballot. We report evidence from … run-off election for President. The two elections are special because in the U.S. election one firmly establishment … two online field experiments conducted in the weeks preceding the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election and the 2016 Austrian …

We study the electoral impact of biased endorsements in large Poisson elections with two candidates. Under fairly … election outcome and voter turnout. We apply our framework to study the influence of the endorser's bias and the entry of new … endorsers on the extent of electoral manipulation. With a single endorser, a rise in bias affects the election outcome in a non …

In this paper we examine the impact of tax contracts as a novel institution on elections, policies, and welfare. We …