To the extent that election campaigns are simply advertising campaigns, they should not contribute directly to social … welfare. Yet election campaigns are often very costly. Why do such costly campaigns arise as the norm? If they do not benefit … society, should campaign expenditures be limited? However, costly election campaigns can benefit society indirectly by …

parties allow like-minded citizens to, first, share the cost of running in a public election and, second, coordinate on a …

elections. Theoretically, contribution limits can have different and potentially opposite effects in an election: one effect …

testable predictions. We test these in a laboratory experiment and find that observed election outcomes and vote shares are …We construct an election game to study the electoral impacts of biased candidate endorsements. We derive a set of … well predicted. We find no support, however, for our prediction that the relationship between election outcome and the …

that I employ has an election threshold. As a result, the impact of the voting system on representation may be sensitive to …

This paper introduces a novel theoretic approach towards understanding election fraud under autocracies, by suggesting … a signaling model of election fraud and testing its basic implications on unique datasets from Russian and cross …

In this paper, citizens vote in order to influence the election outcome and in order to signal their unobserved …

, potential candidates compete in a contest to become their party's nominee. At the election stage, the nominated candidates … campaign by making non-binding promises to voters. Confirming the model's key predictions, we find in the experiment that …