exposed across 1427 villages — in Uganda’s 2016 elections. Working with civil society organizations, we designed the study to …

We study a large-scale intervention designed by civil society organizations to reduce vote buying in Uganda's 2016 … elections. We study this intervention in light of a model where incumbents benefit from a first-mover and valence advantage …

estimate the effect of electoral fraud on the outcome of the Russian parliamentary elections held on December 4, 2011. We … impact on the outcome of the elections; they also confirm that the presence of observers is an important factor in ensuring …

Presidential election in Colombia. Data from roughly 2.000 individuals suggest that our treatments enhance critical thinking …

Modern autocracies today hold elections but employ a number of tactics to control election outcomes. In response to … unfairness of elections, opposition may organize negative campaign to persuade the electorate to vote against a regime candidate … field experiment that we conducted during the 2013 Moscow mayoral election, we published a newspaper criticizing the …

Elections are important because they hold the promise of empowering voters to hold leaders accountable. The sad reality …, however, is that voters in less than democratic states often are marginalized because of widespread election fraud. Field … election day. The results also confirm that all regimes are not equally sensitive to such interventions. For the first time new …

the release of information? Using Brazilian elections and audits as an exogenous source of information, I show that both … competitiveness of elections and, therefore, candidates' spending. Only information disclosed prior to electoral campaigns impacts …

than in other years, indicating that perceived corruption in the public sector increased before elections. The effect is … investigate why perceived corruption in the public sector increased before elections. …Perceived corruption in the public sector is measured by the reversed Transparency International's Perception of …