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To vote or to abstain? An experimental study or first past the poste and PR elections
Blais, André; Pilet, Jean-Benoît; Straeten, Karine Van Der - HAL - 2011
to abstain in First Past the Post and PR elections. We show that in both types of elections, but particularly so under PR … lab, and particularly so in PR elections. We suggest that civic duty has a greater impact under PR because this electoral … system has a more complicated formula, making it more difficult for voters to realize that their vote is unlikely to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009295309
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Welfare economics
Baujard, Antoinette - HAL - 2013
This paper presents the Paretian Watershed and the fundamental theorems of welfare economics. It distinguishes the British approach (à la Kaldor-Hicks) from the American approach (à la Bergson-Samuelson) to new welfare economics. It develops the more recent domains of happiness economics, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821112
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National Politics and International Agreements
Kempf, Hubert; Rossignol, Stéphane - HAL - 2010
voters are the Condorcet winners in both countries : this delegation is the outcome of the struggle by electorates to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603649
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Hyper-Stable Social Welfare Functions
Lainé, Jean; Ozkes, Ali Ihsan; Sanver, Remzi - HAL - 2013
We introduce a new consistency condition for neutral social welfare functions, called hyperstability. A social welfare function a selects a complete weak order from a profile PN of linear orders over any finite set of alternatives, given N individuals. Each linear order P in PN generates a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899706
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Presidential elections and the manipulation of exam success rate in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ebeke, Christian; Etoundi, Mireille Ntsama - HAL - 2011
occurrence of the presidential elections. It hypothesizes that the incumbent is tempted to increase the exam success rate to … yields three findings. First, post-exam presidential elections significantly increase the exam success rate by six percentage … points. Second, the manipulation of the exam success rate is positively correlated with the re-election of the incumbent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644163
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Do labor markets impact whether sick employees call in sick?
Bozionelos, Nikos; Sun, Jian-Min - HAL - 2013
speculating on the relationship. The general idea is that recessions are linked with higher unemployment, which is in turn linked …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820724
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Why not proportional?
Laslier, Jean-François - HAL - 2011
This paper reviews the arguments that justify the principles of proportional and degressively proportional representation.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323508
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The allocation between the EU member states of the seats in the European Parliament Cambridge Compromise
Grimmett, Geoffrey; Laslier, Jean-François; … - HAL - 2011
This Note contains the recommendation for a mathematical basis for the apportionment of the seats in the European Parliament between the Member States of the European Union. This is the unanimous recommendation of the Participants in the Cambridge Apportionment Meeting, held at the instigation...
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Coalition formation: the role of procedure and policy flexibility
Hendrix, Eligius; Ridder, Annelies De; Rusinowska, Agnieszka - HAL - 2013
A spatial model of coalition formation is used together with data from Dutch elections and theoretical instances to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647514
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Politics and the geographic allocation of public funds in a semi-democracy. The case of Ghana, 1996 - 2004
Andre, Pierre; Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine - HAL - 2010
government of an emerging democracy may fear political instability and keep the lid on potential unrest by bargaining with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010753932