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, discuss the difficulties with dynamic voting procedures and review some ways to overcome them. We conclude by highlighting the …
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We conduct an experiment in which groups are tasked with evaluating the truth of a set of politically relevant facts and statements, and we investigate whether communication improves information aggregation and the accuracy of group decisions. Our findings suggest that the effect of...
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, discuss the difficulties with dynamic voting procedures and review some ways to overcome them. We conclude by highlighting the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013222212
We examine the investment decision problem of a group whose members have heterogeneous time preferences. In particular, they have different discount factors for utility, possibly not exponential. We characterize the properties of efficient allocations of resources and of shadow prices that would...
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therefore have a systematic influence on election results. Using administrative migration and voting data, we show that counties … find no effects on incumbent parties. In addition, our results show increased voting for parties with pro …-wing parties. The results have important policy implications for voting regulations. …
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We use a change in the voting procedures of one of the two chambers of the Swiss parliament to explore how transparency … affects the voting behavior of its members. Until 2013, the Council of States (Ständerat) had voted by a show of hands. While …-consuming screening of online videos. In 2014, halfway through the legislative period, the chamber switched to electronic voting. Since …
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recommendations. We find that voting recommendations do indeed matter, implying that even in a secularized world, religion plays a … crucial role in voting decisions. …
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the decision makers’ posterior probabilities of a particular state of nature. Nevertheless, voting is generally an … voting mechanisms. The paper derives the conditions under which the optimal decision rule is equivalent to some well …-known voting procedure (weighted supermajority, weighted majority, and simple majority) and shows that these are very stringent …
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For about 45 years, vote and popularity functions have been estimated for many countries indicating that voting … countries and time periods. In papers, retrospective sociotropic voting dominates. However, the evidence is not so univocal; it … rather tells that voting has egotropic as well as sociotropic aspects, and it is prospective as well as retrospective. It is …
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of group decisiveness into voting incentives and mobilization of voters. In the elections that we study, for the same …
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