In this short note, we use data from different elections in the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia between 1975 and … 2010 to show that the social democrats generally profit from higher voter turnout at the expense of the conservatives. We … deal with the endogeneity of voter turnout by using election day rain as an instrumental variable. Our particular …

One prediction of the calculus of voting is that electoral closeness positively affects turnout via a higher … probability of one vote being decisive. I test this theory with data on all mayoral elections in the German state of Bavaria … between 1946 and 2009. Importantly, I use constitutionally prescribed two-round elections to measure electoral closeness and …

actually occur. The paper also discusses the interaction between voting on taxes and the choice of audit rate by a budget …

The paper presents a model where public pensions are determined by majority voting. Voters differ by age and income …

This paper surveys models of voting on redistribution. Under reasonable assumptions, the baseline model produces an …

This paper analyzes voting on a linear income tax which is redistributed lump sum to the taxpayers. Individuals can …

This note studies the choice of tax structure in a majority voting model with tax competition. Regions may tax mobile …