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 …

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 …

What explains the wide variation across countries in the use of vote buying and policy promises during election … targeted with vote buying pre-election may receive no government benefits post-election. The results point to obstacles to the …