implicitly delivers a novel method for estimating the impact of campaign spending on election outcomes: we find that an …

election would have been more competitive due to the absence of herding and that alternative sequential structures would have …

If voters are fully rational and have negligible cognition costs, ballot layout should not affect election outcomes. In … from the 2003 California Recall Election. We find that the voteshares of minor candidates almost double when their names … the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election and the 2004 Washington Gubernatorial Election. We explore which voting technology …

asked them to predict the election outcomes. The participants' predictions explain more than 20 percent of the variation in …

levels of democracy. In developed countries, especially old democracies, election-year deficits actually reduce the … countries and in new democracies, but voters are affected by growth over the leader's term in office rather than in the election …

challenger quality, which are separately identified using histories of election outcomes following an open seat election. We …

structure about donors - on donations, election outcomes, political candidates' policy choices, and welfare. Three alternative …

We study how social media affects election outcomes in the United States. We use variation in the number of Twitter …