Candidate Quality

dc.creator	Takalo, Tuomas
dc.creator	Poutvaara, Panu
dc.date	2004
dc.date.accessioned	2013-10-16T07:10:31Z
dc.date.available	2013-10-16T07:10:31Z
dc.date.issued	2013-10-16
dc.identifier	http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20441
dc.identifier	ppn:390562831
dc.identifier.uri	http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20441
dc.description	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.
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher
dc.relation	IZA Discussion paper series 1195
dc.rights	http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject	J4
dc.subject	D72
dc.subject	J24
dc.subject	D70
dc.subject	D79
dc.subject	ddc:330
dc.subject	politicians' competence
dc.subject	career concerns
dc.subject	campaigning costs
dc.subject	rewards for elected officials
dc.subject	citizen-candidate models
dc.subject	Politiker
dc.subject	Kompetenz
dc.subject	Qualifikation
dc.subject	Diäten
dc.subject	Wahlkampffinanzierung
dc.subject	Public Choice
dc.subject	Theorie
dc.title	Candidate Quality
dc.type	doc-type:workingPaper

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