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We compiled data on all United Nations General Assembly resolutions on which voting took place between January 1990 and … model of behavioral political economy that includes decoy voting, vanity of autocrats, and a Schelling focal point for …
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the majority increased by one percentage point, the likelihood of voting in favour of same-sex marriage decreased by …
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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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We study the political determination of the level of social long-term care insurance when voters also choose private insurance and saving amounts. Agents differ in income, probability of becoming dependent and of receiving family help. Social insurance redistributes across income and risk...
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the market: That’s what Political Economy, understood as the application of economics to the study of political processes …: Assuming cognitive biases to be present in the market, but not in politics, behavioral economists often call for government to …
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positions. In a probabilistic voting model, we show that a lack of financial institutions can lead to more corruption as more …
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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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We show that the electorate's preferences for using tuition to finance higher education strongly depend on the design of the payment scheme. In representative surveys of the German electorate (N18,000), experimentally replacing regular upfront by deferred income-contingent payments increases...
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, discuss the difficulties with dynamic voting procedures and review some ways to overcome them. We conclude by highlighting the …
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therefore have a systematic influence on election results. Using administrative migration and voting data, we show that counties … find no effects on incumbent parties. In addition, our results show increased voting for parties with pro …-wing parties. The results have important policy implications for voting regulations. …
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