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Parteienzugehörigkeit und Wilderei beim Wahlgegner
Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian - 2005
den Annahmen deterministischen Wahlverhaltens und heterogenen Wählerbindung an die politischen Parteien aus. Wir … generieren eine natürliche Messgröße für die Stärke einer Partei. Sie beruht auf der Größe und Intensität der parteiloyalen … Wählersegmente und zeigt wie sich das Verhalten der Parteien verändert in Abhängigkeit von der Stärke der beiden Parteien. Im …
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Ineffiziente Umverteilung und ineffiziente Umverteilungspolitik
Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian - 2008
aufweisen, ungeachtet des absoluten Effizienzniveaus der Transferzahlung. Aufgrund dieser Abhängigkeit von relativen und nicht … getätigten Transfers und der Summe der effektiv erhaltenen Transfers führen. Im Extremfall erhalten wir „black hole …“-Ineffizienz wie in Magee, Brock und Young (1989). Eine Erweiterung des Modells um loyale Wählersegmente, bei der Loyalität zu einer …
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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/10010307005
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Coalitional Colonel Blotto games with application to the economics of alliances
Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian - 2008
kämpfen. Spieler A kämpft gleichzeitig in zwei Colonel Blotto-Spielen mit zwei verschiedenen Kontrahenten, B1 und B2. Die … jeweiligen Spieler B1 bzw. B2 in seinem eigenen Interesse eingesetzt wird und Seitenzahlungen im Anschluss an die Konfliktphase … ausgeschlossen sind. Es zeigt sich, dass es dennoch zu einseitigen und freiwilligen Ressourcentransfers der Spieler B1 und B2 im …
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Is the 50-state strategy optimal?
Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian - 2008
In 2005, the Democratic National Committee adopted the 50-state strategy in lieu of the strategy of focusing solely on battleground states. The rationale given for this move is that campaign expenditures are durable outlays that impact both current and future campaigns. This paper investigates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307042
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Suicide terrorism and the weakest link
Arce, Daniel G.; Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian - 2009
In this paper we examine a model of terrorism which focuses on the tradeoffs facing a terrorist organization that has the ability to utilize either or both suicide and conventional terrorism tactics. The terrorist organization's objective is to successfully attack at least one target. Success...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266043
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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 the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274465
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Conflicts with multiple battlefields
Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian - 2010
This paper examines conflicts in which performance is measured by the players' success or failure in multiple component conflicts, commonly termed 'battlefields'. In multi-battlefield conflicts, behavioral linkages across battlefields depend both on the technologies of conflict within each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274746
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The attack and defense of weakest-link networks
Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian; Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2010
This paper experimentally examines behavior in a two-player game of attack and defense of a weakest-link network of targets, in which the attacker's objective is to successfully attack at least one target and the defender's objective is diametrically opposed. We apply two benchmark contest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274929
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Is the 50-state strategy optimal?
Roberson, Brian - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003715181