The impact of money on politics—whether through campaign finance, lobbying, or
independent expenditure—raises key normative questions about democratic representation …

This chapter offers a comprehensive survey of the economic analysis of advertising. A first
objective is to organize the literature in a manner that clarifies what is known. A second …

What is good government? Why do some governments fail? How do you implement political
accountability in practice? What incentives do you need to put in place to ensure that …

A rich array of institutional diversity makes the United States an excellent place to study the
relationship between political institutions and public policy outcomes. This essay has three …

We develop a model explaining how criminal organizations strategically use pre-electoral
violence as a way of influencing electoral results and politicians' behaviour. We then …

This paper develops a simple model to analyse how a lack of political competition may lead
to policies that hinder economic growth. We test the predictions of the model on panel data …

The financing of political campaigns is an area of active scholarly study. I review some of the
recent literature and discuss important methodological issues that arise in empirical …

In a large-scale controlled trial in collaboration with the reelection campaign of an Italian
incumbent mayor, we administered (randomized) messages about the candidate's valence …

Turn on the television or sign in to social media during election season and chances are
you'll see plenty of negative campaigning. For decades, conventional wisdom has held that …

This paper argues that campaign finance policy, in the form of contribution limits and
matching public financing, can be Pareto improving even under very optimistic assumptions …