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Identification of voters with interest groups improves the electoral chances of the challenger

Sadiraj, Vjollca; Tuinstra, Jan; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 2009

winning the election. …

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Punching above one's weight : the case against election campaigns

Haan, Marco; Los, Bart; Onderstal, Sander; Riyanto, … - 2010

Politicians differ in their ability to implement some policy. In an election, candidates make commitments regarding the …

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Electoral Maldistricting

Gomberg, Andrei - 2020

We introduce a framework to examine, both theoretically and empirically, electoral maldistricting. Maldistricting is defined as districting in pursuit of a policy at the expense of social welfare. Analysis is performed on the set of implementable (via some district map) legislatures, which are...

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Reputation shocks and strategic responses in electoral campaigns

Poblete Cazenave, Rubén - 2021

Information affecting a candidate's reputation might have significant electoral consequences. Do candidates respond to the release of information? Using Brazilian elections and audits as an exogenous source of information, I show that both incumbent and challenger increase their campaign...

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Political entrepreneurs and pork-barrel spending

Klingensmith, J. Zachary - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 1/16, pp. 1-17

is a commonly held belief that politicians use this spending to improve their chances of re-election. One way that an … incumbent can increase their chances of re-election is through increased fundraising. Political entrepreneurs see this …

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Campaign Cost and Electoral Accountability

Prato, Carlo - 2018

The increasing cost of campaigns and its implications for the performance of the electoral process are issues of paramount importance in modern democracies. We propose a theory of electoral accountability where candidates choose whether to propose a socially beneficial policy and whether to pay...

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Elections under Biased Candidate Endorsements — An Experimental Study

Sun, Junze - 2020

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

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Electoral Control when Policies are for Sale

Farvaque, Étienne; Lagadec, Gael - 2021

This article analyses the dynamics of electoral promises, building on an electoral competition model with endogenous policies. It extends the Grossman-Helpman (1994) model (Grossman G., Helpman E. (1994), "Protection for sale", American Economic Review, 84, 4, 833-850) to include sanctions from...

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Civil rights protests and election outcomes : exploring the effects of the Poor People's Campaign

Anderson, D. Mark; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Karbownik, … - 2023

estimate the effects of these protests on congressional election outcomes. In the South, we find that PPC protests led to …

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Information Aggregation in Stratified Societies

Agranov, Marina; Eilat, Ran; Sonin, Konstantin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We analyze a model of political competition in which the elite forms endogenously to aggregate information and advise the uninformed median voter which candidate to choose. The median voter knows whether or not the endorsed candidate is biased toward the elites, but might still prefer the biased...

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