Under evaluative voting, the voter freely grades each candidate on a numerical scale, with the winning candidate being … determined by the sum of the grades they receive. This paper compares evaluative voting with the two-round system, reporting on … an experiment which used various evaluation scales, conducted during the first round of the 2012 French presidential …

prove that any international agreement involves higher taxes in both countries than in the case of no-agreement. If …

different values to the two types of mistake that may occur. Most voting rules have a plethora of uninformative equilibria, and … informative voting may be incompatible with equilibrium. We analyze an anonymous randomized majority rule that has a unique … under certain perturbations of the behavioral assumptions: (i) a slight preference for voting according to one's conviction …

margins for 17 EU countries and the US. Using the same data, inequality aversion is measured as the degree of redistribution …

costs. But civic individuals support generous benefits and high taxes only when they are surrounded by trustworthy …

. Measuring individualism and the demand for redistribution by questions of the General Social Survey (GSS), we show that: (i …) individuals living in states with mineral resources are more individualistic and support less redistribution by the government … ; (ii) the higher the number of mines in a states, the lower the support for governmental redistribution and the higher the …