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S. C. Gordon and G. A. Huber, “Citizen Oversight and the Electoral Incentives of Criminal Prosecutors,” American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 46, No. 2, 2002, pp. 334-51. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3088380

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• TITLE: Re-election Concerns and the Failure of Plea Bargaining

  AUTHORS: Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay, Bryan C. McCannon

  KEYWORDS: Plea Bargaining; Re-Election; Prosecutor

  JOURNAL NAME: Theoretical Economics Letters, Vol.3 No.5B, September 30, 2013

  ABSTRACT: In this note, we provide a new explanation for the “failure” of plea bargaining. We show in a model of asymmetric information that a public prosecutor facing re-election takes cases to the courtroom to signal quality even when her welfare (absent retention motivation) is always higher from plea bargaining.