Candidate Entry, Screening, and the Political Budget Cycle /

We investigate whether private information about citizens' competence in political office can be revealed by their entry and campaign expenditure decisions. We find that this depends on whether voters and candidates have common or conflicting interests; only in the former case can entry be reve...

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Auteur principal: Le Borgne, Eric
Autres auteurs: Lockwood, Ben
Format: Revue
Langue:English
Publié: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2002.
Collection:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2002/048
Accès en ligne:Full text available on IMF