Electoral Rules and Political Selection : Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment in Afghanistan
Voters commonly face a choice between competent candidates and those with policy preferences similar to their own. This paper explores how electoral rules, such as district magnitude, mediate this trade-off and affect the composition of representat...
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Format: | Working Paper |
Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2015
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/07/24775055/electoral-rules-political-selection-theory-evidence-field-experiment-afghanistan http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22446 |