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Angrist, Noam; Winseck, Kevin; Patrinos, Harry Anthony; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

-climate beliefs, behaviors, policy preferences, and novel data on voting for green parties - a particularly consequential outcome to …, and green voting, with voting gains equivalent to a substantial 35% increase …

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Corporate Social Responsibility and Voting over Public Goods

Samwick, Andrew; Wang, Sophie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper analyzes the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on the total provision of public goods in a framework in which consumers who may make such voluntary contributions to public goods via CSR are also voters who decide on the level of taxes to finance publicly provided public...

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Voting on Public Goods : Citizens vs. Shareholders

Döttling, Robin; Levit, Doron Y.; Malenko, Nadya; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

technologies that increase investor diversification or enable pass-through voting have important implications for these trade …

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Liquid Democracy : Two Experiments on Delegation in Voting

Campbell, Joseph; Casella, Alessandra; De Lara, Lucas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

simple majority voting. However, even when experts are correctly identified, delegation must be used sparely because it … reduces the variety of independent information sources. We report the results of two experiments, each studying two treatments … experiments reach the same result: in both, delegation rates are unexpectedly high and higher than abstention rates, and LD …

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Congressional Vote Options

King, David C. - 1999

Among political practitioners, there is conventional wisdom about the outcomes of critical and salient legislative votes. 'This vote,' we hear, ' will either win by a little or lose by a lot.' Real-world examples suggest coalition leaders purchase 'hip-pocket' votes and "if you need me" pledges,...

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Protecting Minorities in Binary Elections : A Test of Storable Votes Using Field Data

Casella, Alessandra - 2008

Democratic systems are built, with good reason, on majoritarian principles, but their legitimacy requires the protection of strongly held minority preferences. The challenge is to do so while treating every voter equally and preserving aggregate welfare. One possible solution is <i>Storable Votes</i>:...

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Freedom of Speech, Deterrence, and Compellence in the Parliament

Altindag, Duha Tore; Mocan, Naci; Zhang, Jie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper presents the first empirical analysis of the impact of Parliamentary immunity on the behavior and performance of politicians. Leveraging a Constitutional Amendment, the adoption of which lifted the immunity of 132 of the 550 members of the Turkish Parliament, we find that losing...

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Voting on the Budget Deficit

Alesina, Alberto - 1988

This paper analyzes a model in which different rational individuals vote over the composition and time profile of public spending. Potential disagreement between current and future majorities generates instability in the social choice function that aggregates individual preferences. In...

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How Do Voters Matter? Evidence from US Congressional Redistricting

Jones, Daniel B. - 2016

impacts the district representative's roll call voting. We find that an increase in Democrat share within a district causes … more leftist roll call voting. This occurs because a Democrat is more likely to hold the seat, but also because - in … contrast to existing empirical work - partisan composition has a direct effect on the roll call voting of individual …

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Guns and Votes

Bouton, Laurent - 2014

Why are U.S. congressmen reluctant to support gun control regulations, despite the fact that most Americans are in favor of them? We argue that re-election motives can lead politicians to take a pro-gun stance against the interests of an apathetic majority of the electorate, but in line with the...

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