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Analyses of assembly elections often assume that voters have well-defined preferences over candidates, even though …
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Approval voting (AV) is a voting system in which voters can vote for, or approve of, as many candidates as they like in … multicandidate elections. In 1987 and 1988, four scientific and engineering societies, collectively comprising several hundred … adopted AV are used to compare theoretical results with experience, including the nature of voting under AV and the kinds of …
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In this paper we endogenize the number and characteristics of lobbies in a citizen-candidate model of representative democracy where citizens can lobby an elected policy-maker. We find that lobbying always matters. That is, lobbying always affects equilibrium policy outcomes. Moreover, only one...
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