Electoral Rules and Political Selection: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment in Afghanistan
Voters commonly face a choice between competent candidates and those with policy preferences similar to their own. This article explores how electoral rules, such as district magnitude, mediate this trade-off and affect the composition of representative bodies and the quality of policy outcomes. We...
Main Authors: | Beath, Andrew, Christia, Fotini, Egorov, Georgy, Enikolopov, Ruben |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science |
Format: | Article |
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Oxford University Press (OUP)
2018
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/118863 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1076-9879 |
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