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So, Do You Really Want to Be a Senator? The Political Economy of Candidate Motivation and Electoral Defeat in Chile

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    (Management School, University of Liverpool, UK)

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If, as a candidate, I really want to win a seat, I will prefer to run in a favourable district, and with a list partner who maximises my own chances of success (in a 2-seat district). In the 1997 and 2001 Chilean Senate elections, many government candidates chose precisely the opposite. This ‘perverse’ behaviour was especially noticeable in 2001, when ‘consolation prizes’ for losers (the spoils of Presidential office) were twice as large as in 1997. The empirical evidence overwhelmingly supports the conclusion that these candidates did not really want to win seats, but to qualify for ‘consolation prizes’.

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  • David Hojman, 2004. "So, Do You Really Want to Be a Senator? The Political Economy of Candidate Motivation and Electoral Defeat in Chile," Working Papers 200403, University of Liverpool, Department of Economics.
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    1. Dow, Jay K, 1998. "A Spatial Analysis of Candidate Competition in Dual Member Districts: The 1989 Chilean Senatorial Elections," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 97(3), pages 451-474, December.
    2. Hojman, David E, 2002. "The Political Economy of Chile's Fast Economic Growth: An Olsonian Interpretation," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 111(1-2), pages 155-178, March.
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    3. Alexei Zakharov & Constantine Sorokin, 2014. "Policy convergence in a two-candidate probabilistic voting model," Social Choice and Welfare, Springer;The Society for Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 43(2), pages 429-446, August.

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