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Informing Consent : Voter Ignorance, Political Parties, and Election Law

Elmendorf, Christopher S. - 2013

argue that they are problems of, and for, election law. Statutes and court decisions govern who selects a party's candidates …

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Federalism and Accountability with Distorted Election Choices

Kessing, Sebastian G. - 2009

Random factors such as bad weather or exogenous economic shocks affect the re-election of politicians and can reduce … accountability. Such distorted election choices interact with the architecture of government. Contrasting centralized with … decentralized political systems, this study shows that centralization is likely to result in higher accountability if election …

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Electoral Intermediaries

Gallego, Jorge A. - 2020

Democratic elections increasingly involve political intermediaries (e.g. grassroots organizations or political brokers). We develop a model of electoral competition in which candidates must decide between brokers (patronage) and grassroots organizations. Our model shows that patronage is more...

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Electoral Maldistricting

Gomberg, Andrei - 2020

We introduce a framework to examine, both theoretically and empirically, electoral maldistricting. Maldistricting is defined as districting in pursuit of a policy at the expense of social welfare. Analysis is performed on the set of implementable (via some district map) legislatures, which are...

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'It's the Challenger, Stupid!' : Elections and the Theory of Rank-Order Tournaments

Funk, Michael - 2008

ranking. Nevertheless, the theory of tournaments has not yet been applied to Political Economics. Therefore, we deploy … tournament models to analyse elections. The main difference between tournaments in a firm and election tournaments is a …

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Condorcet Jury Theorem in a Spatial Model of Elections

Bhattacharya, Sourav - 2018

We introduce voter uncertainty to the unidimensional spatial model of elections. Strategic voters choose between the status quo and a proposed reform, and there is uncertainty about the location of the reform on the policy space. If each possible location of the reform is on the same side of the...

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Pork-Barrel Politics and Polarization

Hedlund, Aaron - 2019

This article explores how earmarks shape the ideological composition of elected officials in Congress. Relative to the classic median voter theorem, the framework developed here introduces multiple legislative districts and incorporates a desire for local earmarks in the specification of voter...

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Policy Experimentation with Repeated Elections

Hwang, Ilwoo - 2019

stops experimentation prematurely because an imminent election increases the potential to lose power if he undertakes risky …

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Elections in Non-Democracies

Egorov, Georgy - 2018

. Such an election might be a pure farce, with the incumbents getting close to 100% of the vote. In other instances … a fair election allows him to signal his popularity to the people. After casting their vote, heterogeneous citizens …

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Campaign Cost and Electoral Accountability

Prato, Carlo - 2018

paramount importance in modern democracies. We propose a theory of electoral accountability where candidates choose whether to …

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