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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Autor Principal: Lockwood, Ben
Outros autores: Le Borgne, Eric
Formato: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2003.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2003/057
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Acceso en liña:Full text available on IMF