...Tinghua Yu; Elliott Ash This paper explores how political polarization among voters influences the quality of elected officials, with a focus on judges. In our model, legal professionals decide between staying in their current legal careers or running for judicial office. Intrinsically motivated...

...Kemal Kıvanç Aköz; Ekim Arbatli; Dina Rosenberg Although political polarization is in the center of contemporary debates on democratic backsliding, the institutional determinants of this phenomenon remain understudied. In this paper, we investigate how the form of government can affect polarization...