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In this article, we uncover conditions such that parties rank candidates in decreasing order of competence when both competence and campaign incentives matter, focusing on the role of the media, among others.
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I am very happy to announce that my latest joint work with Hideo Konishi and Nicolas Sahuguet on elections under closed list proportional representation is out in PSRM. See: doi:10.1017/psrm.2024.10
1/ While many non-political-scientists look askance at political parties, the pol sci literature regards them as vital for making democracies in large societies work. Let me explain why in this 🧵.
First things first: How do we define political parties?
@edenhofer_jacob Here are the ref's:
Caillaud Bernard and Jean Tirole (2002). “Parties as Political Intermediaries.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 117: 1453-1489.
Caillaud Bernard and Jean Tirole (1999). “Party governance and ideological bias.” European Economic Review, 43: 779-789.
@edenhofer_jacob Great thread! Caillaud and Tirole EER 1999, QJE 2002 are also seminal. They kicked off research on incentives in parties, including my own...
I am very happy to announce that my joint work with Sabine Flamand, "Leaders, factions and the determinants of electoral success" is out in the European Journal of Political Economy
cf. https://t.co/fCvCxmMzlU...
I am very happy to announce that my joint work with Nicolas Sahuguet is out in the EJPE.
Comparative politics with intraparty candidate selection https://t.co/6ucsC1yEFs