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Protecting Minorities in Binary Elections : A Test of Storable Votes Using Field Data

Casella, Alessandra - 2008

Democratic systems are built, with good reason, on majoritarian principles, but their legitimacy requires the protection of strongly held minority preferences. The challenge is to do so while treating every voter equally and preserving aggregate welfare. One possible solution is <i>Storable Votes</i>:...

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Minorities and Storable Votes

Casella, Alessandra - 2005

The paper studies a simple voting system that has the potential to increase the power of minorities without sacrificing aggregate efficiency. Storable votes grant each voter a stock of votes to spend as desidered over a series of binary decisions. By cumulating votes on issues that it deems most...

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Democracy for Polarized Committees : The Tale of Blotto's Lieutenants

Casella, Alessandra - 2016

In polarized committees, majority voting disenfranchises the minority. Allowing voters to spend freely a fixed budget of votes over multiple issues restores some minority power. However, it also creates a complex strategic scenario: a hide-and-seek game between majority and minority voters that...

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Storable Votes and Judicial Nominations in the U.S. Senate

Casella, Alessandra - 2014

We model a procedural reform aimed at restoring a proper role for the minority in the confirmation process of judicial nominations in the U.S. Senate. We analyze a proposal that would call for nominations to the same level court to be collected in periodic lists and voted upon individually with...

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Democracy Undone. Systematic Minority Advantage in Competitive Vote Markets

Casella, Alessandra - 2012

We study the competitive equilibrium of a market for votes where voters can trade votes for a numeraire before making a decision via majority rule. The choice is binary and the number of supporters of either alternative is known. We identify a sufficient condition guaranteeing the existence of...

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The knowledge filter, Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth

Carlsson, Bo; Acs, Zoltan; Audretsch, David; … - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007

This paper explores the relationship between knowledge creation, entrepreneurship, and economic growth in the United … general knowledge and economically useful knowledge. Also missing is a mechanism (such as entrepreneurship) converting …

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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship

Acs, Zoltan; Audrestch, David; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; … - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007

Contemporary theories of entrepreneurship generally focus on the recognition of opportunities and the decision to … exploit them. While the prevailing view in the entrepreneurship literature is that opportunities are exogenous, the most … entrepreneurship and economic growth literatures by developing a knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship. Knowledge created …

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The Evolving Domain of Entrepreneurship Research

Carlsson, Bo; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; McKelvey, Maureen; … - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012

Research on entrepreneurship has flourished in recent years and is evolving rapidly. This paper explores the history of … entrepreneurship research, how the research domain has evolved, and its current status as an academic field. The need to concretize … confronting the prize committee of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research. Entrepreneurship has developed in many sub …

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