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Non-partisan 'get-out-the-vote' efforts and policy outcomes
Kovenock J., Dan; Roberson, Brian - 2009
This paper utilizes a simple model of redistributive politics with voter abstention to analyze the impact of nonpartisan ‘get-out-the-vote’ efforts on policy outcomes. Although such efforts are often promoted on the grounds that they provide the social benefit of increasing participation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003888103
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Non-partisan "get-out-the-vote" efforts and policy outcomes
Kovenock, Daniel J.; Roberson, Brian - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003906945
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Non-Partisan 'Get-Out-The-Vote' Efforts and Policy Outcomes
Roberson, Brian - 2010
This paper utilizes a simple model of redistributive politics with voter abstention to analyze the impact of nonpartisan ‘get-out-the-vote' efforts on policy outcomes. Although such efforts are often promoted on the grounds that they provide the social benefit of increasing participation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140760
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Non-Partisan 'Get-Out-The-Vote' Efforts and Policy Outcomes
Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian - 2009
This paper utilizes a simple model of redistributive politics with voter abstention to analyze the impact of nonpartisan ‘get-out-the-vote' efforts on policy outcomes. Although such efforts are often promoted on the grounds that they provide the social benefit of increasing participation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155667
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Voting in Collective Stopping Games
Herings, P. Jean-Jacques; Predtetchinski, Arkadi - 2013
At each moment in time, some alternative from a finite set is selected by a dynamic process. Players observe the alternative selected and sequentially cast a yes or a no vote. If the set of players casting a yes-vote is decisive for the alternative in question, the alternative is accepted and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014158928
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Inefficient redistribution and inefficient redistributive politics
Kovenock, Daniel J.; Roberson, Brian - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003685835
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Redistributive politics, power sharing and fairness
Debowizc, Dario; Saporiti, Alejandro; Wang, Yizhi - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011548406
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Redistributive politics, power sharing and fairness
Debowicz, Dario; Saporiti, Alejandro; Wang, Yizhi - 2016
We study the effect of power sharing over income redistribution among different socio-economic groups in a model of redistributive politics with fairness concern. We prove that a unique pure-strategy equilibrium exists under fairly general conditions; and we show that equilibrium transfers...
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Distributional consequences of political representation : conference paper
Maaser, Nicola; Stratmann, Thomas - 2014
We investigate the geographical concentration of representatives and the distribution of fiscal transfers both theoretically and empirically. We develop a model which predicts that funds to an area are positively correlated with the number of representatives residing in that area. Our empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010489270
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Redistributive Politics with Target-Specific Beliefs
Fong, Christina M. - 2019
the reasons for being poor. We develop and test a theory about support for redistribution in the presence of target …-specific beliefs about the causes of low and high incomes. Our theory predicts that target-specific beliefs about the poor matter most … welfare recipients supports our theory. We also find, in theory, the existence of a moral release equilibrium in which the …
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