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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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Business regulation and red tape in the entrepreneurial economy

Nyström, Kristina - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2010

interrelationship between entrepreneurship and the quality of business regulations. The empirical findings indicate that there is a … positive relationship between entrepreneurship, and the quality of business regulations. …

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Is Entrepreneurship the Salvation for Enhanced Economic Growth?

Nyström, Kristina - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2008

During the last decades, enhancing entrepreneurship has emerged as commonly used policy- measure in order to improve … economic growth. However, is it true that entrepreneurship unambiguously can be claimed to improve economic growth? This paper … intends to review the empirical evidence on the relationship between entrepreneurship on three measures of economic growth …

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Knowledge accessibility and New Firm Formation

Karlsson, Charlie; Nyström, Kristina - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2006

This paper investigates the role of knowledge for successful entrepreneurship. The paper explicitly discusses the role …

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Labor mobility and entrepreneurship: Who do new firms employ?

Nyström, Kristina - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2011

Entrepreneurship is often claimed to be important for generating employment. However, the empirical evidence on the … relationship between entrepreneurship is not always convincing. Most of the studies that analyse the relationship between new firm …

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