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Beyond Bentham : measuring procedural utility

Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2001

We propose that outcome utility and process utility can be distinguished and empirically measured. People gain procedural utility from participating in the political decision-making process itself, irrespective of the outcome. Nationals enjoy both outcome and process utility, while foreigners...

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Petty corruption and citizen feedback

Angelucci, Charles; Russo, Antonio - 2015

Numerous countries are introducing citizen feedback schemes to tame corruption. We study how best to incorporate feedback in public officials' incentives. The main novelty of our proposal is to allow citizens to directly influence officials' pay. We consider a situation in which entrepreneurs...

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The (economic) effects of lay participation in courts : a cross-country analysis

Voigt, Stefan (contributor) - 2008

Legal philosophers like Montesquieu, Hegel and Tocqueville have argued that lay participation in judicial decision-making would have benefits reaching far beyond the realm of the legal system narrowly understood. From an economic point of view, lay participation in judicial decision-making can...

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Elite capture, political voice and exclusion from aid : an experimental study

D'Exelle, Ben (contributor); Riedl, Arno (contributor) - 2008

We experimentally study the influence of local information conditions on elite capture and social exclusion in community-based development schemes with heterogeneous groups. Not only information on the distribution of aid resources through community-based schemes, but also information on who...

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The heterogeneous effect of digitizing community activities on community participation

Pocchiari, Martina; Roos, Jason M. T. - 2023

As social and business activities undergo significant digital transformation, the allure of digitized versus traditional in-person events remains a critical question. This study quantifies the heterogeneous effect of digitization on community participation across communities catering to...

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Electoral uncertainty, fiscal policies & growth : theory and evidence from Germany, the UK and the US

Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Malley, James R.; … - 2003

economic growth. The model is estimated using quarterly data for Germany, the UK and the US from 1960 to 1999. Our econometric …

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A public good version of the collective household model : an empirical approach with an application to British household data

Klaveren, Chris Van (contributor); … - 2008

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Privatising network industries

Newbery, David M. G. - 2004

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The UK's privatisation experiment : the passage of time permits a sober assessment

Parker, David - 2004

This chapter looks at the UK s privatisation experiment, which began from the late 1970s. It considers the background … to the UK s privatisations, which industries were privatised and how, and summarises the results of studies of … performance changes in privatised companies in the UK. It looks at the relative roles of competition, regulation and ownership …

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Whot voted for Brexit? : a comprehensive district-level analysis

Becker, Sascha O.; Fetzer, Thiemo; Novy, Dennis - 2017

On 23 June 2016, the British electorate voted to leave the European Union. We analyze vote and turnout shares across 380 local authority areas in the United Kingdom. We find that exposure to the EU in terms of immigration and trade provides relatively little explanatory power for the referendum...

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