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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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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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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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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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tractability is lost quickly when dealing with these questions, partly because of the multidimensional voting inherent in models of …
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This paper generalizes previous existence results on unidimensional electoral competition, by extending the traditional two-party electoral game to the case where parties have mixed motivations, in the sense that they are interested in winning the election, but also in the policy implemented...
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A decision maker is contemplating an action whose outcome is state dependent. She has a ‘prior’ over the states of the world and before choosing an action, she can consult an ‘expert’. We model the communication game between the decision maker and the expert as a ‘cheap-talk’ game....
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to favour tenuring him, even after a poor probationary performance. We also characterise the optimal voting rule when N=2 …
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An unstable macroeconomic environment is often regarded as detrimental to economic growth. Among the sources contributing to such instability, much of the blame has been assigned to political issues. This paper empirically tests for a causal and negative long-run relationship between political...
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A taxonomy of underground economies is elaborated based on the new institutional approach to economic development. Members of formal sectors confront different sets of transformation and transaction costs than do members of informal sectors and these differences are regarded as crucial to the...
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