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Majority vote on educational standards
Schwager, Robert - 2018
The direct democratic choice of an examination standard, i.e., a performance level required to graduate, is evaluated against a utilitarian welfare function. It is shown that the median preferred standard is inefficiently low if the marginal cost of reaching a higher performance reacts more...
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Local candidates and distributive politics under closed-list proportional representation
Fiva, Jon H.; Halse, Askill H.; Smith, Daniel M. - 2018
Geographic representation is an important consideration in candidate nominations, even under closed-list proportional representation (PR), and may even matter for distributive policy outcomes. However, since nominations are determined strategically, the causal effects of local representation are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011846263
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Income inequality and political polarization
Marz, Waldemar - 2024
Value issues such as climate policy, immigration, or identity politics are among the most polarizing policy issues in the U.S. and other high-income countries. That polarization has been rising over the last decades. I investigate a novel channel of income inequality and political campaign...
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The preoccupation of the United Nations with Israel : evidence and theory
Becker, Raphael N.; Hillman, Arye L.; Potrafke, Niklas; … - 2014
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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Conservative politicians and voting on same-sex marriage
Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - 2017
the majority increased by one percentage point, the likelihood of voting in favour of same-sex marriage decreased by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742931
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Migrants' missing votes
Giesing, Yvonne; Schikora, Felicitas - 2020
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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Moral hazard in electoral teams
Cox, Gary W.; Fiva, Jon H.; Smith, Daniel M.; … - 2020
How do parties motivate candidates to exert effort in closed-list elections? If each candidate’s primary goal is winning a seat, then those in safe and hopeless list positions have weak incentives to campaign. We present a model in which (i) candidates care about both legislative seats and the...
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Electoral reform and voter coordination
Fiva, Jon H.; Hix, Simon - 2018
Electoral reform creates new strategic coordination incentives for voters, but these effects are difficult to isolate. We identify how the reform of the Norwegian electoral system in 1919, when single-member districts (SMDs) were replaced with multi- member proportional representation (PR),...
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Local favoritism in at-large proportional representation systems
Fiva, Jon H.; Halse, Askill - 2015
Pork barrel spending is typically attributed to the strategic behavior of political elites hoping to be electorally rewarded by voters residing in their districts. Such behavior is expected to depend on the incentives imposed by the electoral system. We estimate the causal effect of local...
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The Duverger-Demsetz perspective on electoral competitiveness and fragmentation : with application to the Canadian parliamentary system, 1867-2011
Ferris, John Stephen; Winer, Stanley L.; Grofman, Bernard - 2016
We combine Duverger's Law (1954) with Demsetz's (1968) theory of natural monopoly to provide a novel perspective on electoral competitiveness in a single member district, plurality rule system. In the framework we develop, competitiveness depends on the contestability of elections, which...
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