Political Accountability and Policy Experimentation: Why to Elect Left-Handed Politicians?
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Keywords
Policy experimentation; learning; political economy; reform; status quo bias; career concerns;JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2013-03-23 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-POL-2013-03-23 (Positive Political Economics)
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