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Moderating Political Extremism : Single Round vs. Runoff Elections under Plurality Rule

Bordignon, Massimo - 2009

equilibrium policy is smaller, because their bargaining power is reduced compared to a single ballot election. The predictions on …

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Supermajorities and Political Rent Extraction

Kauder, Bjoern - 2015

of politicians to hire relatives increased with the margin of the majority for the incumbent in the previous election …

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Majority Vote on Educational Standards

Schwager, Robert - 2018

The direct democratic choice of an examination standard, i.e., a performance level required to graduate, is evaluated against a utilitarian welfare function. It is shown that the median preferred standard is inefficiently low if the marginal cost of reaching a higher performance reacts more...

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On a Three-Alternative Condorcet Jury Theorem

Goertz, Johanna; Maniquet, Francois - 2021

We investigate whether the simple plurality rule aggregates information efficiently in a large election with three …

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Federalism and Accountability with Distorted Election Choices

Kessing, Sebastian G. - 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 centralization is likely to result in higher accountability if election …

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Beyond Condorcet : Optimal Aggregation Rules Using Voting Records

Baharad, Eyal - 2011

The difficulty of optimal decision making in uncertain dichotomous choice settings is that it requires information on the expertise of the decision makers (voters). This paper presents a method of optimally weighting voters even without testing them against questions with known right answers....

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Minority Voting and Long-Term Decisions

Fahrenberger, Theresa; Gersbach, Hans - 2021

In this paper we propose minority voting as a scheme that can partially protect individuals from the risk of repeated exploitation. We consider a committee that meets twice to decide about projects where the first-period project may have a long-lasting impact. In the first period a simple open...

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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 publicly observable at the time of the vote,...

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Divided Government Versus Incumbency Externality Effect - Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Multiple Voting Decisions

Ade, Florian - 2012

interested in: Does the partisan identity of the mayor influence the voter's decision in the subsequent town council election … the mayor on the result of the last council election? We rely on a regression discontinuity design focusing on close … election outcomes based on municipal level data for Germany. We find that the party of the mayor can receive a bonus of 4 …

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Symmetric and Asymmetric Committees

Ben-Yashar, Ruth - 2011

This paper studies the assignment of decision makers to two committees that make decisions by a simple majority rule. There is an even number of decision makers at each of various skill levels and each committee has an odd number of members. Surprisingly, even with the symmetric assumptions in...

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