This paper evaluates the effects of encouraging the selection of local politicians in India via community …-based consensus, as opposed to a secret ballot election. While secret ballot elections prevent vote capture by guaranteeing voter … candidates, elected politicians, government budgets and workfare employment at the village level, I show that incentives for …

politicians' quality is positively affected by their wage and apply a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design relying on the fact …

intensely about. We develop a model in which office and policy motivated politicians choose to support or oppose regulations on … these issues. We derive conditions under which politicians flip-flop, voting according to their policy preferences at the … beginning of their terms, but in line with the preferences of single-issue minorities as they approach re-election. To assess …

avoid tax increases in election years. These data contain 3 useful attributes: (1) when state politicians enact tax laws, (2 … implemented tax changes relative to non-election years. We find some evidence that politicians are most likely to enact tax …We use new annual data on gasoline taxes and corporate income taxes from U.S. states to analyze whether politicians …

for contesting elections, making it critical to understand the role of politicians' education in their performance. We … and less-educated politicians. We find that narrowly electing a graduate leader, as compared to a non-graduate leader, in …

This paper estimates the causal impact of electing criminally accused politicians and their nature of criminality on …

for contesting elections, making it critical to understand the role of politicians' education in their performance. We … and less-educated politicians. We find that narrowly electing a graduate leader, as compared to a non-graduate leader, in …

capital we speculate that this is the result of incumbent politicians using their resources to establish clienteles. …