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lie to the survey takers and claim that they did. Increases in education are associated with higher voting rates and lower … rates of lying overall, but with increased rates of lying conditional on not voting. This paper proposes a model of voter … has a stable equilibrium with positive rates of voting, honest non-voting, and lying. Reasonable parameter changes produce …
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of support E gives to H. Third, I address the implications for the definition of special majority voting, a procedure … special majority voting in terms of a required proportion of the jury is epistemically questionable, and that the classical …
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I analyze simultaneous voting on the wage tax rate and investment in public education using a model with three … benefits. I derive the results both for a once-and-for-all voting system with commitment and for repeated voting. My model …
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We develop a definition of equilibrium for agenda formation in general voting settings. The definition is independent … of any protocol. We show that the set of equilibrium outcomes for any Pareto efficient voting rule is uniquely determined …, and in fact coincides with that of the outcomes generated by considering all full agendas. Under voting by successive …
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This paper examines the political economy of redistribution when voters have asymmetric information about the redistributive preferences of politicians and the latter cannot make credible policy commitments. The candidates in each party are endogenously selected by a process of Nash Bargaining...
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This paper examines the mechanics of intertemporal information provision in {\em dynastic governments}. It has been suggested that ``horizontal accountability," i.e., a system of governance where auditing functions lie outside the executive branch, can ensure credible disclosure of information....
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to a “political fixed point problem” in which a current political rule (e.g., majority voting) admits a solution only if …
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Although recet research has repeatedly found a negative association between investment and socio-political instability (SPI), the existence and direction of causality between these two variables has not yet been investigated. We construct an index of SPI for non-overlaping five-years periods...
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Whether bilateral trade barrier data conform with the Grossman-Helpman (1995) model’s predictions about “trade talks” is examined in this article. A simple form of the prediction from the model is tested. Bilateral US-Japan and US-EU data from the 1990s are employed. The results are the...
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We examine how globalization affects trade patterns and welfare when conflict prevails domestically. We do so in a simple model of trade, in which a natural resource like oil is contested by competing groups using real resources ('guns'). Thus, conflict is viewed as ultimately stemming from...
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