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Benesch, Christine; Bütler, Monika; Hofer, Katharina E. - 2015

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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Minimum participation rules for the provision of public goods

Gerber, Anke; Neitzel, Jakob; Wichardt, Philipp C. - 2012

This paper considers the endogenous formation of an institution to provide a public good. If the institution governs only its members, players have an incentive to free ride on the institution formation of others and the social dilemma is simply shifted to a higher level. Addressing this...

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An experiment on non-zero sum Colonel Blotto games

Hortala-Vallve, Rafael; Llorente-Saguer, Aniol - 2015

We study a version of the Colonel Blotto game where valuations across battlefields are heterogeneous and asymmetric. These games can exhibit unique pure strategy equilibria, some of which are non-monotonic with respect to the battlefield valuations. We test our theoretical predictions in the...

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Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion

Cubitt, Robin P.; Gächter, Simon; Quercia, Simone - 2015

We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....

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Fiscal federalism and electoral accountability

Aidt, Toke; Dutta, Jayasri - 2010

. -- fiscal federalism ; local public goods ; externalities ; performance voting ; turnout uncertainty ; electoral accountability …

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Voter confirmation bias and electoral accountability

Lockwood, Ben - 2015 - First version: 8 February 2015, This version: 7 June 2015

This paper considers the implications of an important cognitive bias in information processing, confirmation bias, in a political agency setting. In the baseline two-period case where only the politician's actions are observable before the election, we show that when voters have this bias, it...

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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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Vote buying in the US Congress

Matter, Ulrich; Roberti, Paolo; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2019

distribution and donation flows in a legislature feature a discontinuity at the approval threshold of bills if special interest … groups are involved in vote buying. Testing the theoretical predictions based on two decades of roll-call voting in the U …

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Attitudes towards globalization barriers and implications for voting : evidence from Sweden

Karakas, Leyla D.; Kim, Nam Seok; Mitra, Devashish - 2021

liberal-conservative spectrum are controlled for in the analysis of voting behavior, trade barrier preferences lose their … affect voting behavior through channels involving identity-driven factors that are different from the channels through which …

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Gender gaps in political careers : evidence from competitive elections

Cipullo, Davide - 2021

two-stage elections, candidates are admitted to the second round of voting based on the outcome of the first round. I find …

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