This paper examines how bureaucracy affects political accountability and electoral selection, using a three …-tier political agency model with voters, politicians and bureaucrats. In the model's hierarchy, politicians are constrained by … election while bureaucrats are controlled by the budget. Bureaucrats' discretion provides them with political power to force …

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

voters' capacity to identify and empower well-suited politicians. In our model, candidates are heterogeneous in two … concentration of power in the hands of the election winner is optimal if and only if the conflict of interest is small. …

voters' capacity to identify and empower competent politicians. In our model, candidates are privately informed about their … motivation. In particular, full concentration of power is desirable if and only if politicians are mostly welfare-oriented. The …

the legal rigidities imposed on hiring around elections, pre-natal check-ups (a key output of the healthcare bureaucracy … 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 …