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I'm Asking for Your Support: The Effects of Personally Delivered Campaign Messages on Voting Decisions and Opinion Formation
AbstractIn addition to mobilizing supporters to vote, partisan campaigns use get-out-the-vote tactics as a means to boost support for their candidate. Although observational studies have attempted to estimate the effects…
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War Chests for Deterrence and Savings
AbstractI present a model of fund-raising in repeated elections where funds are raised to deter the entry of strong challengers, and to increase the probability of winning through campaign spending.…
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Blind Spot
AbstractSuggested CitationKeith Krehbiel and Nolan McCarty (2007), "Blind Spot", Quarterly Journal of Political Science: Vol. 2: No. 1, pp 1-3.
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Nomination Processes and Policy Outcomes
AbstractWe provide a set of new models of three different processes by which political parties nominate candidates for a general election: nominations by party leaders, nominations by a vote of…
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Electoral Institutions and the National Provision of Local Public Goods
AbstractI explore the incentives under alternative electoral institutions for national politicians to efficiently provide local public goods. Using a career-concerns model which incorporates voter ideological heterogeneity and thus allows comparison…
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Small States, Big Pork
AbstractUsing data on authorizations from the 2005 Highway Bill, we show that the legislative allocation of pork barrel spending by U.S. state (measured by the value of transportation earmarks per…
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