result from women being less willing to run for office, from voter bias against women, or from political structures that make … politicians' faces. When choosing between female and male candidates, Democrats, and especially Democratic women, preferred female … findings suggest that voter bias against women cannot explain women's underrepresentation. On the contrary, American voters …

result from women being less willing to run for office, from voter bias against women, or from political structures that make … politicians’ faces. When choosing between female and male candidates, Democrats, and especially Democratic women, preferred female … findings suggest that voter bias against women cannot explain women’s underrepresentation. On the contrary, American voters …

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 …

rise in media bias affects the election outcome in a non-monotonic way, and reduces voter welfare by decreasing the …We develop a tractable theory to study the impact of biased media on election outcomes, voter turnout and welfare. News … elections, the former determines the election outcome, whereas the latter drives voter turnout. With a single media outlet, a …

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 …-monotonic way and reduces voter welfare. Importantly and surprisingly, manipulating election outcomes becomes easier, the larger is …

Politicians differ in their ability to implement some policy. In an election, candidates make commitments regarding the …

We model an election between two Downsian mainstream candidates and a third inflexible politician. There is uncertainty … politicians make informative announcements, specially when the third candidate is biased towards the most popular policy. We also …