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Degan, Arianna; Merlo, Antonio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

theoretical framework and assess whether the behaviour of voters is consistent with sincere voting in U.S. national elections in … the post-war period. We find that by and large sincere voting can explain virtually all of the individual …-level observations on voting behaviour in presidential and congressional U.S. elections in the data. …

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

Casella, Alessandra; Ehrenberg, Shuky; Gelman, Andrew; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 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 storable votes:...

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Competing for Endorsements

Grossman, Gene; Helpman, Elhanan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

Endorsements are a simple language for communication between well-informed interest-group leaders and less-informed interest-group members. The members, who share some policy concerns, may not fully understand where their interests lie on certain issues. If their leaders cannot fully explain the...

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Who is in Favour of Enlargement? Determinants of Support for EU Membership in the Candidate Countries Referenda

Doyle, Orla; Fidrmuc, Jan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We analyse support for EU membership as expressed in voting patterns in the candidate countries’ referenda on EU … membership, using regional referendum results and individual survey data on voting intentions. We find that favourable individual …

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Voice of the Diaspora: An Analysis of Migrant Voting Behaviour

Doyle, Orla; Fidrmuc, Jan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

investigate the impact of institutional, political and economic characteristics on migrants’ voting behaviour. The political … voting behaviour: adaptive learning; economic self-selection and political self-selection. The results of the analysis … suggest that migrant voting behaviour is affected by the institutional environment of the host countries, in particular the …

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Voting on the Adoption of a Common Currency

Casella, Alessandra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1991

Two countries adopting a common currency share the same monetary policy and save on transaction costs. This paper studies the impact of these two factors on the composition of markets. The establishment of a monetary union alters the boundaries between domestic and international markets and...

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Elections with Contribution-Maximizing Candidates

Gradstein, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

Much of the analysis of campaign contributions, in accordance with the Downsian model, has supposed that candidates seek contributions for electoral purposes. This paper takes the opposite approach, by assuming that each candidate aims to maximize the contributions he collects. We let a citizen...

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Media Capture and Wealth Concentration

Corneo, Giacomo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

develops a voting model where citizens are uncertain about the welfare effects induced by alternative policy options and derive … influence the public opinion. In case of voting over the level of a productivity-enhancing public bad, it is shown that an …

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Attitude-Dependent Altruism, Turnout and Voting

Rotemberg, Julio J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

emerges with nontrivial voting costs and modest altruism. The model can explain higher turnout in close elections as well as … candidates will lose votes to more popular candidates, a phenomenon often called strategic voting. For other parameters, the …

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Political Institutions, Environmental Policy and Growth

Marsiliani, Laura; Renström, Thomas I - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We analyse the impact of micro-founded political institutions on environmental policy and economic growth. We model an overlapping-generations economy, where individuals differ in preferences over the environment (as well as in age). Labour taxation and capital taxation is used to finance a...

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