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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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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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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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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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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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Comparing voting methods : 2016 US presidential election

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

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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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Voting When the Stakes are High

Andersen, Jørgen Juel - 2010

Rational choice theories of electoral participation stress that an individual's decision to vote depends on her expected net benefit from doing so. If this instrumental motive is relevant, then turnout should be higher in elections where more is at stake. We test this prediction, by studying how...

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Do Elections Affect the Composition of Fiscal Policy?

Katsimi, Margarita - 2010

This paper investigates the impact of elections on the level and composition of fiscal instruments using a sample of 19 high-income OECD countries that can be characterized as developed, established democracies during the period 1972-1999. We find that elections shift public spending towards...

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Federalism and Accountability with Distorted Election Choices

Kessing, Sebastian - 2009

Random factors such as bad weather or exogenous economic shocks affect the re-election of politicians and can reduce accountability. Such distorted election choices interact with the architecture of government. Contrasting centralized with decentralized political systems, this study shows that...

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