intertemporally when deliberations are taken by vote in periodic committee meetings …

This paper examines the pattern of change in turnout in elections and in the rate of voting of different socioeconomic … regulations that make it easier to register and to vote should have raised turnout, the proportion of the voting age population … that votes has fallen. This is partly due to the increased proportion of voting age persons who are ineligible to vote, but …

We study the properties of the group-based model of voting in elections with more than two candidates. We consider two … equilibria under both rules and identify the features of an election that favor different types of voting behavior: either … sincere voting or coordination behind a limited number of candidates. Comparing plurality and majority runoff, we find that …

respect to voting preferences, union members are more likely to vote for a Democrat for the House or Presidency than … demographically comparable nonunion voters, largely because union members have attitudes and voting inclinations favorable to the …

estimate the effect of social image concerns on voting. In a door-to-door survey about election turnout, we experimentally vary …, and (iii) the incentives to lie about past voting. Our estimates suggest significant social image concerns. For a … plausible range of lying costs, we estimate the monetary value of voting `because others will ask' to be in the range of $5 …

We show using a theoretical framework that embeds a voting model in a general-equilibrium model of a rural economy with …

voting and implementing term limits. We find that an approval voting system reduces the distortions by 7.5 percent. Term …

debt associated with larger majority requirements. Also in line with the theory, we find that debt is lower when the …