Politicians have limited ability to influence policy. This provides an incentive for politicians to feign, whereby they …

voters' preferences for the outcome of the election. Specifically, we show that candidates benefit from increased voter … attention under all rules other than negative plurality. Second, less attentive voters have a larger impact on the election …

How can we motivate "good" politicians — those that will carry out policy that is responsive to citizens' preferences … — to enter politics? In a field experiment in Pakistan, we vary how political office is portrayed to ordinary citizens. We … political entry shape how politicians perform in office …

investigated by scholars, empirical findings are mixed at best. This is partly because of the non-random nature of election timing … exploiting a natural experiment in Japan, where the timing of both executive and legislative elections in municipalities is fixed …

How can we motivate good politicians those that will carry out policy that is responsive to citizens' preferences to … enter politics? In a field experiment in Pakistan, we vary how political office is portrayed to ordinary citizens. We find …

evolution of confirmation bias can lead to more pandering before the first election. Finally, we show that when confirmation …This paper considers the implications of an important cognitive bias in information processing, confirmation bias, in a … political agency setting. In the baseline two-period case where only the politician's actions are observable before the election …