Union institutions, and so on). Many politicians get into office through a democratic election, while others are selected or …

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 …

Incumbent politicians may worry about their chances of re-election. Re-election concerns may induce incumbents to write …

parties allow like-minded citizens to, first, share the cost of running in a public election and, second, coordinate on a …

We provide a game-theoretical model of manipulative election campaigns with two political candidates and a continuum of …-efficient candidate wins the election even if she is more distant from the electorate than her opponent is. In contrast to the existing … election campaign models that do not support information manipulation in equilibrium, our paper rationalizes misleading …