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Works in progress
How informative campaigning shapes policy and performance with Otto Swank (economic theory).
Conventional wisdom says that moderation is the route to win office. However, recently, many candidates won office because of extreme policy commitments. Moreover, after their election, those politicians governed as hardliners. We present a model of electoral competition in which candidates remain ambiguous during their campaigns or make specific promises. We show that candidates commit to signal the effectiveness of their platform, to persuade voters, and to increase the salience of policy. We illustrate, using historical examples, how polarization explains why the policy stakes of elections have increased and why it led to declining quality of policy outcomes and elected candidates.
Other projects
Dead watchdogs don't bark: The decline of local news, decentralization and political careers (theory).
The Press, Petitions and the Progressive Era (empirics).
Why and when local elections are hijacked by national politics (theory and empirics)
Miscellaneous
Phd Thesis
My thesis, titled "Essays in Political Economy: The Press, Petitions and Political Campaigns," which I defended on the 26th of November, 2025, can be found here. The accompanying 11 propositions can be found here.
Replication
Teacher Influence in Music Composition since 1450: A Replication of Borowiecki (2022), with Marco Musumeci, Renske A. Stans and Maddalena Totarelli. The Institute for Replication Discusion Paper. This specific replication is part of the paper "Mass Reproducibility and Replicability: A New Hope" , which has Abel Brodeur, Derek Mikola and Nikolai Cook as its main authors. Forthcoming in Nature.
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