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| Title: | | Candidate Quality  |
| Authors: | | Takalo, Tuomas Poutvaara, Panu |
| Issue Date: | | 2004 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion paper series 1195 |
| Abstract: | | We analyze the topical question of how the compensation of elected politicians affects the set of citizens choosing to run. To this end, we develop a sparse and tractable citizen-candidate model of representative democracy with ability differences, informative campaigning and political parties. Our results suggest that primaries, campaign costs and rewards have previously overlooked interactions that should be studied in a unified framework. Surprisingly, increasing the reward may lower the average candidate quality when the campaigning costs are sufficiently high. |
| Subjects: | | politicians' competence career concerns campaigning costs rewards for elected officials citizen-candidate models |
| JEL: | | J4 D72 J24 D70 D79 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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