What impact do income and other demographic factors have on a voter’s partisan choice? Using post-election surveys of …

Does information about rampant political corruption increase electoral participation and the support for challenger … parties? Democratic theory assumes that offering more information to voters will enhance electoral accountability. However, if … increased support for challengers and higher political participation. We provide experimental evidence that information about …

-based voting rule is more efficient in aggregating information than the outcome-based rule. However, generically, the gain from … of the truth value of the relevant premises. Should the group reach a decision by voting whether each premise is true or …

Using two unifying models and an empirical exercise, this paper presents and extends the main theories linking income … and benefits of redistribution through taxes, land reform or public schooling: such policies simultaneously depress …’ rent-seeking abilities, as well as with the gap between rich and poor. It is not income inequality per se that matters …

-Coate (1997)) to an asymmetric information setting, in which the type of a given individual is assumed to be private information … for a number of (potential) candidates at most equal to three. This is in sharp contrast with the complete information …

differences in the public finance performance of the two systems. A parliamentary system has redistribution towards a majority …-congressional system has redistribution towards a minority, more underprovision of public goods, but less waste and a smaller size of …

This Paper analyses an overlapping generation model of public good provision under repeated voting. The public good is … financed through age-dependent taxation that distorts human capital investment. Taxes redistribute income both across different …

majority which supports a social security system with early retirement in a bidimensional voting game is composed of elderly …

show that in a political equilibrium of a two-dimensional majoritarian election, a voting majority of low-income young and …. Specifically, public health decreases the longevity differential between low and high-income individuals, therefore rising the … is confirmed by independent studies, increases the political support for social security among the low-income young. We …