objective of our study is therefore to examine the relationship between SDGs’ progress and the likelihood of re-election. Our …

concerned about reelection actually experiment more than governors striving for reelection. Overall, our findings imply that … reelection concerns may inhibit innovation in the public sector. …

welfare and the lowest polarization levels. We apply our model to the design of optimal re-election hurdles. In particular, we … show that raising the vote-share needed for re-election above 50% weakly reduces policy polarization and tends to increase … welfare. Furthermore, we identify circumstances where the optimal re-election hurdle is strictly larger than 50%. …