voters' capacity to identify and empower competent politicians. In our model, candidates are privately informed about their … motivation. In particular, full concentration of power is desirable if and only if politicians are mostly welfare-oriented. The …

database includes the level of funding, as well as the origin of the resources the politicians have at their disposal. The …

-tier political agency model with voters, politicians and bureaucrats. In the model's hierarchy, politicians are constrained by … election while bureaucrats are controlled by the budget. Bureaucrats' discretion provides them with political power to force … politicians to make compromise. If voters and bureaucrats prefer different types of politicians, i.e., they have a conflict of …

In a series of experiments with 375 participants, we investigate the impact of biased polls on election outcomes, when … voters have the opportunity to observe and learn about the bias by playing multiple voting rounds. While in control … are \textit{explicitly} informed about the bias. Our results suggest that the anchoring effects of biased polls on …

consisting of (60)individuals who are eligible to participate in the Jordanian election. The initial survey was also pre …