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fertility with voting on public education expenditures. The theory is able to account for the facts mentioned above. Countries …In most democracies, the majority of education expenditures is financed by the government. In non-democracies, we … observe a wide variation in the mix of public and private funding of education. In addition, countries with high inequality …
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Derived pension rights exist in most Social Security systems but with variable generosity. They are mainly targeted towards non-working wives and widows and are viewed as a means to alleviate poverty among older women living alone. The purpose of this paper is to explain how they can emerge from...
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rates than couples. We show that the majority voting outcome depends on the relative number of one-breadwinner couples and …
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-wise linear methods, then a majority voting equilibrium exists. Furthermore, if most voters have income below mean income then …
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a two-party voting equilibrium basically exists. The two parties taking a positive number of votes are the two extremist …
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In this paper we analyze a model of proportional representation that allows for both sincere and strategic voting. We …
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The citizen-debate approach, proposed to study the performance of representative democracies, builds on a multi-stage game where the same agents are asked whether or not to become a candidate and, successively, to vote. Consistently, the solution concept adopted in Besley and Coate (1997)...
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In this note we discuss two examples of approval voting games. …
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Voting games are characterized by the emergence of dominated strategies, that would be iteratively deleted by rational …
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in a voting model where a unidimensional redistributive parameter is chosen by majority voting in a direct democracy …
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