Search Results - subject:"Median Voter Model"

The Median Voter Data Set : Voter Preferences across 50 Democracies from 1945

De Neve, Jan‐Emmanuel - 2009

The median voter, or the ideological position of the electoral center, has fi gured widely across literatures. This paper introduces a median voter data set that allows for comparison across time and across countries. The data set employs the statistics provided by the Comparative Manifesto...

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One-Dimensional Bargaining with Markov Recognition Probabilities

Herings, Peter Jean-Jacques; Predtetchinski, Arkadi - 2009

We study a process of bargaining over social outcomes represented by points in the unit interval. The identity of the proposer is determined by a general Markov process and the acceptance of a proposal requires the approval of it by all the players. We show that for every value of the discount...

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Testing Conflicting Political Economy Theories? Full-Fledged versus Partial-Scope Regional Trade Agreements

Liu, Xuepeng - 2009

panel data. The results show that the prediction of the median-voter model is supported by the full-fledged free trade areas … capital-labor ratios due to stronger distributional effects of RTAs. The support for the median voter model (lobbying model … support for the median voter model for the subset of FTAs/CUs with service coverage and stronger support for the lobbying …

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Hawks and doves at the FOMC

Eijffinger, Sylvester C. W.; Mahieu, Ronald J.; Raes, Louis - 2015

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Family taxation, fertility, and horizontal equity : a political economy perspective

Balestrino, Alessandro - In: Public finance review : PFR 43 (2015) 3, pp. 402-427

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Energy subsidy reform and policy makers' reelection incentives

Pani, Marco; Perroni, Carlo - In: The economics and political economy of energy subsidies, (pp. 61-91). 2015

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Lexicographic voting : holding parties accountable in the presence of Downsian competition

Klingelhöfer, Jan - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 15 (2015) 4, pp. 1867-1892

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Is more information always better? : party cues and candidate quality in U.S. judicial elections

Lim, Claire S. H.; Snyder, James M. - In: Journal of public economics 128 (2015), pp. 107-123

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Equilibrium tax rates and income redistribution : a laboratory study

Agranov, Marina; Palfrey, Thomas R. - In: Journal of public economics 130 (2015), pp. 45-58

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Advocacy and political convergence under preference uncertainty

Reuben, Ernesto; Traxler, Christian; Winden, Frans A. … - In: European economic review : EER 79 (2015), pp. 16-36

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