In this article, I estimate the impact of the Democratic tariff platform on its electoral outcome using congressional district data on election to the House of Representatives from the years 1982 to 1994. I control for many other financial, historical, and social factors that could affect the...

Previous studies have recognized that campaign contributions and lobbies affect trade policy. However, whether or not trade policy affects electoral outcome is far less discussed. This paper thus introduces a theoretical framework to explain how trade platform could affect the vote pattern....

We examine the effects of introducing village elections on public goods expenditures, income distribution and land use in rural China. We construct a large panel data set of village administrative records to document the history of political reforms and economic policies for over two hundred...

This study examines how the economic effects of elections in rural China depend on voter heterogeneity, for which we proxy with religious fractionalization. We first document religious composition and the introduction of village-level elections for a nearly nationally representative sample of...