, I leverage administrative, identified, contract-level data on the universe of municipal employees in Brazil between 2002 … prosecutors, politicians and bureaucrats conducted in 7 states. The paper contributes to bridging the gap between the literatures …

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

This paper analyzes the effort allocation choices of incumbent politicians when voters are uncertain about politician … would strictly prefer to have a consensus policy implemented. As such, the desire of politicians to convince voters that … allocations. Transparency over the politicians' effort choices can re-enforce the distortions, and for some parameters can be bad …

again, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), civil society organizations and the media took the responsibility of voter … after the general election. This brief details why there is an urgent need to publish polling station specific data, which … the case, it would call into question the validity of election results in certain constituencies …

local council. To address the endogeneity related to non-random election outcomes I employ a Regression Discontinuity Design … candidate. I find that the election of an additional female candidate leads to fewer newly participating female candidates in …

intensely about. We develop a model in which office and policy motivated politicians choose to support or oppose regulations on … these issues. We derive conditions under which politicians flip-flop, voting according to their policy preferences at the … beginning of their terms, but in line with the preferences of single-issue minorities as they approach re-election. To assess …