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On the justice of voting systems
Apesteguia, Jose; Ballester, Miguel A.; Ferrer, Rosa - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2006
What are the best voting systems in terms of utilitarianism? Or in terms of maximin, or maximax? We study these … questions for the case of three alternatives and a class of structurally equivalent voting rules. We show that plurality …, arguably the most widely used voting system, performs very poorly in terms of remarkable ideals of justice, such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771963
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A positive theory of geographic mobility and social insurance
Hassler, John; Mora, José V. Rodríguez; Storesletten, … - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2001
This paper presents a tractable dynamic general equilibrium model that can explain cross-country empirical regularities in geographical mobility, unemployment and labor market institutions. Rational agents vote over unemployment insurance (UI), taking the dynamic distortionary effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005827462
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Electoral platforms, implemented policies and abstention
Llavador, Humberto - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2001
Recent studies of American politics evidence that political polarization of both the electorate and the political elite have moved 'almost in tandem for the past half century' (McCarty et al., 2003, p.2), and that party polarization has steadily increased since the 1970s. On the other hand, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772049
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Government spending and re-election: Quasi-experimental evidence from Brazilian municipalities
Litschig, Stephan; Morrison, Kevin - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2010
Does additional government spending improve the electoral chances of incumbent political parties? This paper provides the first quasi-experimental evidence on this question. Our research design exploits discontinuities in federal funding to local governments in Brazil around several population...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008564762
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A foundation for strategic agenda voting
Apesteguia, Jose; Ballester, Miguel; Masatlioglu, Yusufcan - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2012
We offer complete characterizations of the equilibrium outcomes of two prominent agenda voting institutions that are … equivalently the Euro-Latin procedure. Our axiomatic approach provides a proper understanding of these voting institutions, and … allows comparisons between them, and with other voting procedures. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009493739
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Turnout, political preferences and information: Experimental evidence from Perú
León, Gianmarco - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2013
effects of such institutions on voter participation and the composition of the electorate. In this paper, I combine a field … experiment with a change in Peruvian voting laws to identify the effect of monetary (dis-)incentives on voting. Using the random … voting with respect to cost to be -0.21. Consistent with the theoretical model presented, the reduction in turnout induced by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010633300
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Shrouded costs of government: The political economy of state and local public pensions
Glaeser, Edward L.; Ponzetto, Giacomo A. M. - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2012
Why do public-sector workers receive so much of their compensation in the form of pensions and other benefits? This paper presents a political economy model in which politicians compete for taxpayers' and government employees' votes by promising compensation packages, but some voters cannot...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010849602
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Social capital, government expenditures, and growth
Ponzetto, Giacomo A. M.; Troiano, Ugo - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2012
We present a tractable stochastic endogenous growth model that explains how social capital influences economic development. In our model, social capital increases citizens' awareness of government activity. Hence, it alleviates the electoral incentives to under- invest in education, whose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652113
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Heterogeneous information and trade policy
Ponzetto, Giacomo A. M. - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2008
Protectionism enjoys surprising popular support, in spite of deadweight losses. At the same time, trade barriers appear to decline with public information about protection. This paper develops an electoral model with heterogeneously informed voters which explains both facts and predicts the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009645443
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A characterization of sequential rationalizability
Apesteguia, Jose; Ballester, Miguel A. - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2008
sequentially rationalizable. Finally, we show that some prominent voting mechanisms are also sequentially rationalizable. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005707995