the release of information? Using Brazilian elections and audits as an exogenous source of information, I show that both … competitiveness of elections and, therefore, candidates' spending. Only information disclosed prior to electoral campaigns impacts …

We analyze the topical question of how the compensation of elected politicians affects the set of citizens choosing to … differences, informative campaigning and political parties. Our results suggest that primaries, campaign costs and rewards have … the average candidate quality when the campaigning costs are sufficiently high. The model accommodates a variety of …

Open ballot PR election lead to a great amount of intra-party competition. In order to get elected, candidates have to … personal vote seeking attempts of individual candidates in the 2007 national election in Switzerland using data from the … chamber elections – to empirically investigate some of Carey and Shugart's (1995) original claims about candidates' incentives …

In modern elections, ideologically motivated candidates with a wealth of information about individual voters and … any prudent rationalizable election outcome is the same as if voters have full awareness of issues and complete … information of policy points, both in parliamentary and presidential elections. We show by examples that these results may break …

testable predictions. We test these in a laboratory experiment and find that observed election outcomes and vote shares are …We construct an election game to study the electoral impacts of biased candidate endorsements. We derive a set of … well predicted. We find no support, however, for our prediction that the relationship between election outcome and the …

In their pursuit of being elected, politicians might not provide their constituents with independent viewpoints, but …, "candor", can be sustained as equilibria. This means that the public's trust or distrust in politicians may be self …-fulfilling prophecies. Importantly, the more informed politicians are about public opinion, the more likely it is that populist behavior can …