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Elections and Market Provision of Information

Bruns, Christian - 2013

Economists usually think that rational voters have little incentives to acquire costly information. We present a theoretical model to show that, in contrast to this widely held belief, rational voters acquire considerable amounts of information if media technology is available because then they...

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Fiscal Federalism and Electoral Accountability

Aidt, Toke - 2010

We study the efficient allocation of spending and taxation authority in a federation in which federal politicians are exposed to electoral uncertainty. We show that centralization may, but need not, result in a loss of electoral accountability. We identify an important asymmetry between positive...

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Transparency in Parliamentary Voting

Benesch, Christine - 2016

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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Local electoral rewards from centralized social programs : are mayors getting the credit?

Rodríguez-Chamussy, Lourdes - 2015

This paper uses variation in the timing of the Mexican antipoverty program's introduction across municipalities to identify its impact on the share of votes for the local incumbent party. Evidence is found that voters reward the mayor's party for the central benefit to their constituencies,...

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Divided majority and information aggregation : theory and experiment

Bouton, Laurent; Castanheira, Micael; Llorente-Saguer, Aniol - 2015

We propose a theory-based experimental approach to compare the properties of approval voting (AV) with those of … voting. Finally, subjects' behavior under AV highlights the need to study equilibria in asymmetric strategies. …

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Strategic voting in multi-winner elections with approval balloting : a theory for large electorates

Laslier, François; Van der Straeten, Karine - 2016

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Comparing voting methods : 2016 US presidential election

Igersheim, Herrade; Durand, François; Hamlin, Aaron; … - 2018

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Electoral turnout during states of emergency and effects on incumbent vote share

Frank, Marco; Stadelmann, David; Torgler, Benno - 2020

turnout is robust and there is no relevant heterogeneity of the increase across municipalities. We argue that voting is an act …

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Wie haben sich die Kräfteverhältnisse im Europäischen Parlament verändert?

Felbermayr, Gabriel - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 99 (2019) 6, pp. 379-383

Die Wahl zum Europäischen Parlament Ende Mai 2019 hat einige Entwicklungen gezeigt: Die Wahlbeteiligung ist deutlich gestiegen, die großen Volksparteien haben Verluste erlitten, aber der befürchtete Siegeszug der europaskeptischen und populistischen Parteien blieb aus. Angesichts der auf...

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Civic engagement in the Americas

Scartascini, Carlos G.; Vlaicu, Razvan - 2018

This paper estimates the effect of voting eligibility on civic engagement measured along three dimensions: political … country-specific voting age laws. It is found that voter enfranchisement increases self-reported interest in politics … larger in countries with enforced mandatory voting. …

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