Electoral Bias and Policy Choice:Theory and Evidence

By Timothy J. Besley, Ian Preston. 2007

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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The Impact of Competition on Management Quality: Evidence from Public Hospitals (2015, unknown): “There is UK evidence that marginality affects various policies and political behavior in other dimensions (e.g. Besley and Preston, 2007, and Larcinese, 2007).”
Internet and Politics: Evidence from U.K. Local Elections and Local Government Policies (2015, background): “in the Local Government Financial Statistics for England 2012-13, as well as those reported by Besley and Preston (2007). The average value of Internet across LA-year pairs is approximately 55 percent, with a standard deviation of 13 percent.”
Chiefs: Economic Development and Elite Control of Civil Society in Sierra Leone (2014, background): “The only other paper that, to our knowledge, develops a potential source of exogenous variation in political competition is Besley and Preston ð2007Þ, which uses redistricting as a source of variation, though focusing on policy convergence as the outcome variable.”
Gender Quotas and the Quality of Politicians (2014, unknown): “When gender quotas are in place, the quality of the pool of candidates who run for local elections is affected, as also suggested by Besley et al. (2012). To further complement the regression analysis in Table 3, we plot the kernel densities of the education levels of elected male politicians in the”
The Geographic Distribution of Political Preferences (2010, background): “4A successful attempt to analyze the impact of electoral bias on policy choice is provided by Besley & Preston (2007), who use data from English local governments to show that electoral bias allows parties to implement more extreme policies in favor of their supporters. www.annualreviews.org •…”
Political rents in a non-corrupt democracy (2009, unknown): “Finally, we study the wages paid to politicians in municipalities as an alternative measure of rents.”