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Infinite Population Utilitarian Criteria

Asheim, Geir B.; Kamaga, Kohei; Zuber, Stéphane - 2022

how a novel criterion, Strongly Anonymous Utilitarianism, can be characterized by combining Strong Anonymity with other …

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Ethnofederalism and Ethnic Voting

Bluhm, Richard; Hodler, Roland; Schaudt, Paul - 2021

We investigate how changes in the administrative-territorial structure affect ethnic voting. We present an event study design that exploits the 2010 constitutional reform in Kenya, which substantially increased the number of primary administrative regions. We find (i) strong evidence for a...

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Migrants' Missing Votes

Giesing, Yvonne; Schikora, Felicitas - 2021

Emigrants are less likely to participate in elections in their home country. They are also self-selected in terms of education, gender, age, and political preferences, changing the structure of the origin population. High emigration rates can therefore have a systematic influence on election...

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No Surprises, Please : Voting Costs and Electoral Turnout

Alipour, JV; Lindlacher, Valentin - 2022

We study how seemingly benign changes to voting costs affect electoral turnout, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in the assignment of polling places in Munich (Germany). Using an event study design, we find that polling place relocations cause a persistent shift from in-person to mail-in...

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The Impact of Council's Internal Decision-Making Rules on the Future EU

Widgren, Mika - 2021

This paper deals with the voting rules in the EU Council. Both internal and external impact of the voting rules are evaluated. Internal impact affects the distribution of power among the member states and external impact affects power relations between the main decision-making bodies in the EU....

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Uncovered Power : External Agenda Setting, Sophisticated Voting, and Transnational Lobbying

Battilana, Silvia Console - 2021

Where does the balance of power lie in a policy - making institution with an external agenda setter, legislators, and lobbies? In a multiple round majority rule game with sophisticated actors, we show that the agenda setter obtains its most preferred policy outcome even if all lobbies and...

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Justifying social discounting: The rank-discounted utilitarian approach

Zuber, Stéphane; Asheim, Geir B. - 2010

utilitarianism on non-decreasing streams, but it treats all generations impartially: discounting becomes the mere expression of …

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Climate policy under sustainable discounted utilitarianism

Dietz, Simon; Asheim, Geir B. - 2011

utilitarianism (DU). DU is controversial, both due to the conditions through which it is justified and due to its consequences for … measures to justify their present costs. In this paper, we propose sustainable discounted utilitarianism (SDU) as an … alternative principle for evaluation of climate policy. Unlike undiscounted utilitarianism, which always assigns zero relative …

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Moderating political extremism: single round vs runoff elections under plurality rule

Bordignon, Massimo; Tabellini, Guido - 2009

We compare single ballot vs dual ballot elections under plurality rule, assuming sincere voting and allowing for partly endogenous party formation. Under the dual ballot, the number of parties is larger but the influence of extremist voters on equilibrium policy is smaller, because their...

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Democratic provision of divisible public goods

Gersbach, Hans - 2010

In this paper we examine the potential of democratic constitutions for the provision of divisible public goods in a large economy. Our main insights are as follows: When aggregate shocks are absent, the combination of the following rules yields first-best allocations: a supermajority rule, equal...

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