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Following the 2007 disputed Kenyan Presidential election unprecedented levels of violence erupted across the country adding to the history of troubled elections in Africa.  This paper offers quantitative and qualitative evidence on the incidence, impacts and issues that triggered electoral...
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voting. Under influence, these decisions can become inefficient. Therefore, the market for policies may be more likely to …, and payoff and information structures. We discuss implications for the efficiency of democracy, voting, lobbying …
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classical voting system (one person - one decision - one vote), we propose a new voting system where each agent is endowed with … dismissed. Its novelty relies on allowing voters to express the intensity of their preferences in a simple manner. This voting … independently distributed across possible values, Qualitative Voting Pareto dominates Majority Rule and, moreover, achieves the only …
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voting. Under influence, these decisions can become inefficient. Therefore, the market for policies may be more likely to …, and payoff and information structures. We discuss implications for the efficiency of democracy, voting, lobbying …
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committee to make decisions through voting is that a commitment device can be created out of it, without totally renouncing … flexibility to respond to unexpected contingenices. Appropriate voting procedures and a well chosen supermajority rule can make a … can mitigate time inconsistency by introducing a status quo bias. When voting institutions (ie. the committee …
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We examine the impact of the Great Depression on the share of votes for right-wing anti-system parties in elections in the 1920s and 1930s.  We confirm the existence of a link between political extremism and economic hard times as captured by growth or contraction of the economy.  What...
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This paper discusses how a consistent treatment of asset markets may be integrated into standard trade-focussed CGE models. Starting from a core specification of the real economy, calibrated to data for Zambia in the mid-1990s, the paper examines the properties of a hierarchy of models which...
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