Political accountability and policy experimentation: why to elect left-handed politicians?
In an environment where voters face an inference problem on the competence level of policy makers, this paper shows how subjecting these policy makers to reelection can reduce the degree of policy experimentation to the benefit of the status quo. This may be a reason why some notable policy experim...
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University of Oxford
2013
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