Differences between the voting behavior of men and women have become one of the most significant issues in social … science research in recent years. In this study, we examine whether there is gender gap in voting behavior in Turkey. Using … European Social Survey data, we find that education level and religiosity are the main determinants of voting behavior of both …

positions. The dataset includes the voting behavior of 257 MPs in 218 roll-call votes. Our results do not show that parties … account for the voting behavior by punishing politicians who have voted against the party line. Political parties may attract … different groups of voters by tolerating politicians who vote according to their own credo. Qualities other than the voting …

different voting rules, the frequency of votes for the moral transgression increases with the number of votes required for it … us to identify guilt sharing and preferences for consensual voting as empirically relevant and independent drivers of … voting behavior. …

In this paper, I analyze the voting outcomes of two very similar Swiss referendum ballots concerning the federal … 1971, and the other shortly thereafter. I estimate the impact of introducing female voting on the difference in acceptance … population. I provide additional evidence from post-ballot surveys after similar ballots to overcome potential strategic voting …

To assess the likely effects of population ageing on the outcomes of direct democracy, we analyze the effect of age on … voting decisions in public referenda. To this end, we provide the first quantitative review of the literature and a case …

involving a sample group. These mechanisms reflect the principles of liberal democracy, are procedurally efficient, and involve … private information truthfully before voting takes place. Depending on the distance between two feasible public good levels …, the optimal mechanism involves either one or two voting rounds. We show that procedural efficiency cannot be achieved by …

democracy, representative democracy, where politicians are accountable and independent agencies, where they are not. Low … democracy optimal, while the opposite configuration makes representative democracy optimal. Independent agencies are optimal for …

difficulties of particular democracies to function properly confront democracy with a new series of challenges and opportunities … democracy. We survey a long period in the quest for such new forms and point to next inventions for such forms. We suggest to … experiment with new ways for democracy to extend the choice of democratic processes that can be implemented in real …