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

-ideological voters, who care about national and local policies, strongly prefer experts. We show that parties compete on good politicians … prediction. We find that politicians with higher ex-ante quality − as measured by years of schooling, previous market income, and …, the characteristics of politicians belonging to opposite parties converge to high-quality levels in close races …

We construct an election game to study the electoral impacts of biased candidate endorsements. We derive a set of … testable predictions. We test these in a laboratory experiment and find that observed election outcomes and vote shares are … well predicted. We find no support, however, for our prediction that the relationship between election outcome and the …

dataset of attacks directed towards Italian local politicians to study how (and why) criminal organizations use violence … outcome and ii) after elections, to influence politicians from the beginning of their term. We provide causal evidence in … favor of the latter hypothesis. The probability of being a target of violence increases in the weeks right after an election …

Union institutions, and so on). Many politicians get into office through a democratic election, while others are selected or …Politicians are persons involved in the process of public policymaking in their role as members of governments … appointed to a public office. For many politicians politics is a full-time job, while for others it remains an activity in …

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 …

Do donor-funded politicians benefit their donors disproportionately? If so, how? This paper examines the impact of … electing donor-funded politicians using a novel dataset that uniquely links campaign donors with recipients of public contracts …-box of how politicians benefit donors, interesting patterns are found. Compared to the known findings, contracts for donors …

officials in sub-national governments. We first develop a model of politics with different types of politicians and show that … -- following a tax decentralization reform increasing local fiscal autonomy -- politicians with high administrative skills are … elected in rich jurisdictions while politicians with high political skills are elected in poor ones. As a result, voter …

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