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Lame ducks and divided government: How voters control the unaccountable

Schelker, Mark

In: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, vol. 46, no. 1, p. 131-144

Electoral institutions interact through the incentives they provide to policy makers and voters. In this paper divided government is interpreted as the reaction of voters to a sys- tematic control problem. Voters realize that term-limited executives (“lame ducks”) cannot credibly commit to a moderate electoral platform due to missing reelection incentives. By dividing government control...