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Is more information always better? : party cues and candidate quality in U.S. judicial elections

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On ignorant voters and busy politicians

Aytimur, R. Emre; Bruns, Christian - 2015

We show that a large electorate of ignorant voters can succeed in establishing high levels of electoral accountability. In our model an incumbent politician is confronted with a large number of voters who receive very noisy signals about her performance. We find that the accountability problem...

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Incumbency effects in government and opposition : evidence from Germany

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Local electoral rewards from centralized social programs : are mayors getting the credit?

Rodríguez-Chamussy, Lourdes - 2015

urban, more educated and relatively wealthier municipalities. Findings are consistent with the hypothesis that politicians …

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Intergovernmental transfers and re-election concerned politicians

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Competing on good politicians

Galasso, Vincenzo; Nannicini, Tommaso - 2010

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Serving the public interest

Markussen, Thomas; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2010

candidates by observing their pre-election behavior. Egoistic types may strategically imitate benevolent types in the pre-election … the public sector is effective. We analyze the role of institutions like investigative media and re-election and show that …

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Elections and divisiveness : theory and evidence

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Political accountability and policy experimentation : why to elect left-handed politicians?

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