Do Elections Always Motivate Incumbents? : Experimentation vs. Career Concerns /

This paper studies a principal-agent model of the relationship between an incumbent officeholder and the electorate, where the officeholder is initially uninformed about her ability. If officeholder effort and ability interact in the "production function" that determines performance in off...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lockwood, Ben
Other Authors: Le Borgne, Eric
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2003.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2003/057
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