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Vote buying II : legislatures and lobbying
Dekel-Tabak, Eddie (contributor);  … - 2006
We examine the consequences of lobbying and vote buying, assuming this practice were allowed and free of stigma. Two .lobbyists. compete for the votes of legislators by oÞering up-front payments to the legislators in exchange for their votes. We analyze how the lobbyists.budget constraints and...
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Vote buying I : legislatures and lobbying
Dekel-Tabak, Eddie (contributor);  … - 2006
compete in a binary election and may purchase votes in a sequential bidding game via up-front binding payments and/or campaign … promises (platforms) that are contingent upon the outcome of the elec-tion. We analyze the role of the parties.and voters …
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Incentive contracts and elections for politicians and the down-up problem
Gersbach, Hans - 2000
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Incentive contracts for politicians
Liessem, Verena (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Reelection threshold contracts in politics
Gersbach, Hans; Liessem, Verena - 2001
When politicians are provided with insufficient incentives by the democratic election mechanism, we show that social …
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Unveiling or concealing aspirations : how candidate gender influences voter response to political ambition
Endo, Yuya; Ono, Yoshikuni - 2023
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Political awareness, microtargeting of voters, and negative electoral campaigning
Shipper, Burkhard C.; Hee Yeul Woo - 2014
any prudent rationalizable election outcome is the same as if voters have full awareness of issues and complete …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010255046
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Information on the ballot, voter satisfaction and election turnout
Sajons, Christoph - 2016
unknown and party-identification cannot be used to distinguish them. This case often appears in election systems with either … experimental exit-poll of voters at local elections in two German states in 2014 in which respondents faced a hypothetical election … translates directly into a greater willingness to take part in the hypothetical election (“turnout”), especially for individuals …
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Vote buying or campaign promises? : electoral strategies when party credibility is limited
Hanusch, Marek; Keefer, Philip; Vlaicu, Razvan - 2016
What explains significant variation across countries in the use of vote buying instead of campaign promises to secure voter support? This paper explicitly models the tradeoff parties face between engaging in vote buying and making campaign promises, and explores the distributional consequences...
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Incumbent advantage, voter information and vote buying
Cruz, Cesi; Keefer, Philip; Labonne, Julien - 2016
Results from a new experiment shed light on the effects of voter information on vote buying and incumbent advantage. The treatment provided voters with information about a major spending program and the proposed allocations and promises of mayoral candidates just prior to municipal elections. It...
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