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Eat Widely, Vote Wisely? Lessons from a Campaign Against Vote Buying in Uganda
Blattman, Christopher - 2019
some voters to abandon norms of reciprocity--thus accepting gifts from politicians but voting for their preferred candidate …
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Votes or Money? Theory and Evidence from the US Congress
Bombardini, Matilde - 2007
interest group's campaign contributions to politicians. We uncover a robust hump-shaped relationship between the voting share …
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Money and Politics : The Effects of Campaign Spending Limits on Political Competition and Incumbency Advantage
Avis, Eric - 2017
This paper examines the effects of campaign spending limits on political competition and incumbency advantage. We study a reform in Brazil that imposed limits on campaign spending for mayoral elections. These limits were implemented with a discontinuous kink which we exploit for causal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455174
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An Experimental Study of Alternative Campaign Finance Systems : Donations, Elections and Policy Choices
Fang, Hanming - 2011
We experimentally study the effect of alternative campaign finance systems - as characterized by different information structure about donors - on donations, election outcomes, political candidates' policy choices, and welfare. Three alternative campaign finance systems are considered: a full...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461274
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471442
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012476301
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456153
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014576634
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Does Political Ambiguity Pay? Corporate Campaign Contributions and the Rewards to Legislator Reputation
Kroszner, Randall S. - 2000
Do politicians tend to follow a strategy of ambiguity in their policy positions or a strategy of reputational development to reduce uncertainty about where they stand? Ambiguity could allow a legislator to avoid alienating constituents and to play rival interests off against each other to...
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