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The Capital Mistake: Local Information and National Electoral Reforms
DOI: 10.1590/1981-38212015000300019
Electoral reforms are often portrayed as strategic decisions by rational actors. However, expectations about the electoral consequences of reforms are not always realized ex post. I argue that these strategic mistakes occur because of information failures. Even though electoral reforms are decided at a national level, electoral information is geographically concentrated at a local level, where elections take place. At the time of reforms, members of the National Congress need to gather local level information. When deciding whether to support […]
Keywords: Electoral information; information failures; regime choice; uncertainty