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We show that a large electorate of ignorant voters can succeed in establishing high levels of electoral accountability. In our model an incumbent politician is confronted with a large number of voters who receive very noisy signals about her performance. We find that the accountability problem...
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In 2001, the state parliament of the German federal state of Hesse abolished a 5 percent legal electoral threshold for … threshold. The dataset covers all 426 Hessian municipalities over the period 1989-2011. Our results suggest that the seat and …
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, remains strictly above a threshold. Moreover, there may be one-candidate equilibria in which the only candidate is not the one …
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experiment is the abolishment of an explicit electoral threshold (the so called "five percent hurdle") for local elections in … where the electoral competitiveness of smaller parties improved more because of the abolishment of the explicit threshold …
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