favor of the latter hypothesis. The probability of being a target of violence increases in the weeks right after an election …

this subject focuses on how party machines use vote buying at election time and whether they target partisans or swing … partisanship moderates clientelistc parties' vote buying strategies during election campaigns …

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

It is commonly thought that in an election with two parties there can be no strategic voting - voters simply vote for … a single-district election. For large elections I show that the implemented policy bundle: (a) is uniquely pinned down … exists. These properties are not guaranteed in a single-district election. Furthermore, I show that: (i) parliamentary …

When politicians are provided with insufficient incentives by the democratic election mechanism, we show that social …

intuition using Dictator Games in a lab-in-the-field experiment involving a sample of more than 1,000 individuals in Kenya and … and one eight months prior and find that selfishness is greater in the lab round more proximate to the election. Our …