We study the effect of voting mechanisms and socio-economic contextual factors on political and economic outcomes. We develop a
number of closely interrelated and yet distinct lines of research.
The first part of the project focuses on how voting mechanisms affect political outcomes, as well as a variety of other outcomes
reflecting public policies. We investigate these issues in different institutional settings and through case-specific datasets. The
second part looks at how the above-mentioned outcomes are affected by socio-economic contextual factors, relying on rich
individual-level data-sets collected for universes of the population with information on electoral turnout, political orientation, and
contextual factors.