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Mobility and Redistributive Politics.
Hindriks, J. - Business School, University of Exeter - 1999
mobile (although in different degrees) and when each jurisdiction chooses its redistributive policy by majority voting. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008852249
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Voting over Social Security with Uncertain Lifetimes.
De Donder, P.; Hindriks, J. - Business School, University of Exeter - 1999
determined by majority voting between individuals who differ (ex-ante) in their earning ability and life expectancy. Given … incentive effects, the voting equilibrium depends on balancing the redistributive gains that social security provides to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008852271
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Behind the cube rule: implications of, and evidence against a fractal electoral geography
Maloney, John; Pearson, Bernard; Pickering, Andrew - Business School, University of Exeter - 2001
income distribution, and find that this is even further away from fractality than is voting. This fits the well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008852302
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On the Membership of Decision-Making Committees.
Bulkley, G.; Myles, G.D.; Pearson, B.R. - Business School, University of Exeter - 2000
The decision of a committee is determined jointly by the voting process it adopts and the composition of its membership …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008852316
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Economic Voting in Britain, 1857-1914
Hodgson, Robert; Maloney, John - Business School, University of Exeter - 2010
Despite limited government control over the pre-1914 economy, opposition politicians were enthusiastic in blaming bad economic news on the incumbent. In a study of 458 by-elections between 1857 and 1914, we find that voters typically gave new governments a 'honeymoon' but thereafter held them...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008852489
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Vote or Shout
Chakravarty, Surajeet; Kaplan, Todd R. - Business School, University of Exeter - 2010
of two mechanisms for deciding between them: majority voting and shouting. In majority voting, the choice with the most … find that it is optimal to use voting in the case where n is large and value for each particular alternative of the voters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008852512