The current research aims to bridge the gap in the literature by examining the attributes and
preferences of potential political leaders who may receive endorsements from political …

Open list proportional representation (PR) systems require that candidates seek personal
votes in order to be successful. This feature of the system is considered to lead to intense …

In list proportional representation (PR) systems, parties shape political selection. We
propose a theory of party list choice and elections in list PR systems. Our results describe …

Political parties play a crucial gatekeeping role in elections, including controlling electoral
resources, candidate recruitment, and electoral list compositions. In making these strategic …

We study the distribution of preference votes across politicians with different behaviors and
attitudes. There are two main findings. First, preference votes are concentrated to politicians …

Electoral systems affect vote choice. While a vast literature studies this relationship by
examining aggregate-level patterns and focussing on the interparty dimension of electoral …

Building on past research, this paper develops a game theoretic model to study the
provision of local public goods under closed-and open-list proportional representation …

We develop a new framework to study legislative representation in list proportional
representation (PR) systems. Our model studies a legislator's incentives to balance the …

Political parties often feature salient internal conflicts between elite members over the party's
positioning on political issues. We consider the relationship between elite partisan disunity …

Under closed-list proportional representation, a party's electoral list determines the order in
which legislative seats are allocated to candidates. When candidates differ in their ability …