Delegates or Trustees? A Theory of Political Accountability
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- 1 October 2009
- journal article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The Journal of Politics
- Vol. 71 (4) , 1225-1237
Abstract
Politicians vary in both their competence and their policy preferences. We show that how voters trade off competence against ideological congruence has key implications for the type of representati...Keywords
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