Introducing a threshold in the sense of a minimal project size transforms a public goods game with an inefficient … thresholds are ineffective at best and often counter-productive. This holds under a range of threshold levels and refund rates …. We test if thresholds perform better if they are endogenously chosen, i.e. if a threshold is approved in a referendum …

benefit a lot from having a ticket, suggesting instrumental voting. In each referendum, a majority votes in line with self …-interest, providing strong evidence for pocketbook voting. However, social preferences like altruism, public good considerations and …

from gender differences in simple economic choice tasks, to voting over policy and to the resulting outcomes. We conduct a … gender difference is large relative to other voting differences based on observable characteristics and is partly explained … by gender gaps in preferences and beliefs. Gender voting gaps persist with experience and in environments with varying …

problem, we introduce a triple mechanism involving political information markets, reelection threshold contracts, and … democratic elections. An information market is used to predict the long-term performance of a policy, while threshold contracts …

find that instrumental voting prevails in small rural municipalities and expressive voting in larger cities. As expressive … urban voters may impose their will on the voters of rural cantons voting instrumentally …