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Chapter Twenty-Five. Strategyproof Social Choice
Barberà, Salvador - In: Handbook of social choice and welfare : volume 2, (pp. 731-831). 2011
This chapter surveys the literature on strategy proofness from a historical perspective. While I discuss the connections with other works on incentives in mechanism design, the main emphasis is on social choice models.
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Assessing the extent of strategic manipulation : the average vote example
Renault, Régis; Trannoy, Alain - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 2 (2011) 4, pp. 497-513
The average voting procedure reflects the weighted average of expressed opinions in [0,1]. Participants typically … taste is central enough, the range of possible values for the average voting outcome is narrower than the corresponding … range for majority voting. For instance, if the average taste is at 1/2, the limit equilibrium outcome is this value plus or …
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Who will be idol? The importance of social networks for winning on reality shows
Heizler (Cohen), Odelia; Kimhi, Ayal - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 41 (2012) 1, pp. 18-25
This paper examines, both theoretically and empirically, the effect of social networks and belonging to minority groups (or race) on the probability of winning in reality television shows. We develop a theoretical model that studies viewer behavior by presenting a framework of competition...
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Changes in voter bias in the associated press college football poll
Coleman, B. J.; Gallo, Andrés Alberto; Mason, Paul M.; … - In: Applied economics letters 31 (2024) 11, pp. 1045-1048
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Crowd wisdom relies on agents' ability in small groups with a voting aggregation rule
Keuschnigg, Marc; Ganser, Christian - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 63 (2017) 3, pp. 818-828
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The evolution of public spending on higher education in a democracy
Haupt, Alexander - In: European Journal of Political Economy 28 (2012) 4, pp. 557-573
ensuing decline in subsidies per student: the increase in the number, and thus voting power, of skilled parents. The rise of …
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Post-compulsory education: Participation and politics
Anderberg, Dan - In: European Journal of Political Economy 29 (2013) C, pp. 134-150
sustained by middle- and high income groups voting for a policy which is positive but not generous enough to allow lower income …
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On the political economy of educational vouchers
Epple, Dennis; Romano, Richard - In: Journal of Public Economics 120 (2014) C, pp. 62-73
Two significant challenges hamper the analyses of the collective choice of educational vouchers. One is the multi-dimensional choice set arising from the interdependence of the voucher, public education spending, and taxation. Second, even absent a voucher, preferences over public spending are...
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Patronage and ideology in electoral behavior: Evidence from Egypt's first presidential elections
Al-Ississ, Mohamad; Atallah, Samer - In: European Journal of Political Economy 37 (2015) C, pp. 241-248
estimate the impact of patronage (measured by public employment) on voting for the pre-revolution regime candidate. Second … voting behavior. Additionally, we test for candidates' ability to mobilize supporters. Our results suggest that patronage has …
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Pivotality and responsibility attribution in sequential voting
Bartling, Björn; Fischbacher, Urs; Schudy, Simeon - In: Journal of public economics 128 (2015), pp. 133-139
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