Состоялось очередное заседание научного семинара "Политическая экономика"

Докладчик: Benoit Crutzen (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam)
Тема доклада: "Keeping Politicians on Their Toes: Does the Way Parties Select Candidates Matter?"

Accountability is a cornerstone of democracy. Does the way parties select their candidates matter? When should parties favor a selection procedure? To answer these questions, we develop a novel model of elections. Effort provision by politicians increases voter welfare but the power of electoral incentives, the precision of the mapping from effort to electoral success, varies. Parties want to win the election and can select their candidates through an effort-based competition or another, effort-independent, procedure. We identify the optimal selection procedure as a function of the power of electoral incentives and electoral rules (we consider plurality rule, closed-list and open-list proportional representation). We prove that the competitiveness of the selection procedure and the power of electoral incentives, but not the electoral rules themselves, are substitutes. Allowing voters to differ ideologically, we also highlight that the competitiveness and the degree of decentralization of the candidate selection procedure are distinct facets of this procedure.


Полный текст статьи   Keeping politicians on their toes

Заседание состоялось 09 .04.2013 в 18.15  по адресу: г. Москва, улица Шаболовка, дом 26, корпус 4, аудитория  4322.