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Minority voting and long-term decisions
Gersbach, Hans (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003630747
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Federalism and accountability with distorted election choices
Kessing, Sebastian - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003887189
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Do electoral rules matter for female representation?
Profeta, Paola; Woodhouse, Eleanor - 2018
electoral rules favour the election of women. We propose a new channel through which this result is obtained, related to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011864243
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Measuring the competitiveness of elections
Cox, Gary W.; Fiva, Jon H.; Smith, Daniel M. - 2018
The concept of electoral competition plays a central role in many subfields of political science, but no consensus exists on how to measure it. One key challenge is how to conceptualize and measure electoral competitiveness at the district level across alternative electoral systems. Recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951989
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Transparency in parliamentary voting
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 publicly observable at the time of the vote,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411279
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Beyond condorcet : optimal aggregation rules using voting records
Baharad, Eyal; Goldberger, Jacob; Koppel, Moshe; … - 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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Election systems, the "beauty premium" in politics, and the beauty of dissent
Potrafke, Niklas; Rösch, Marcus; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2020
We ask three questions. First, do election systems differ in how they translate physical attractiveness of candidates … German election system that combines first-past-the-post election with party-list proportional representation, our results …
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Supermajorities and political rent extraction
Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - 2015
of politicians to hire relatives increased with the margin of the majority for the incumbent in the previous election …
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Dancing with the Populist : new parties, electoral rules and Italian municipal elections
Bordignon, Massimo; Colussi, Tommaso - 2020
This paper develops a theoretical framework that makes predictions on (a) the conditions under which a populist party decides to run and the policy position it takes and (b) voters' response under different electoral systems. We test these predictions using data on Italian municipal elections...
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Simply a matter of luck & looks? : predicting elections when both the world economy and the psychology of faces count
Garretsen, Harry; Stoker, Janka I.; Alessie, Rob; … - 2014
Economic research shows that candidates have a higher chance of getting (re-)elected when they have the luck that the world economy does well even though this is beyond their control and unrelated to their competence. Psychological research demonstrates that candidates increase their chances if...
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