In an experiment designed to test for expressive voting, Tyran (JPubEc 2004) found a strong positive correlation … voting decisions in the social science literature. Redoing Tyran's experiment and adding new treatments, we provide evidence …

the launch of the project. Examples are the Kyoto protocol, voting with different weights (shareholders, the UN with the …

In an economic theory of voting, voters have positive or negative costs of voting in favor of a proposal and positive … or negative benefits from an accepted proposal. When votes have equal weight then simultaneous voting mostly has a unique … pure strategy Nash equilibrium which is independent of benefits. Voting with respect to (arbitrarily small) costs alone …

impact on voting. The US and the EU introduced targeted measures against Russian entities and individuals related to Putin … effect on voting can be explained as rally-around-the-flag in the face of sanctions, as long as voters did not endure …

voting against the alternative preferred by some of their social contacts. We analyze how the existence of cross …-pressures may shape voting decisions, and so, political outcomes; and how candidates may exploit this eþect to their interest. …

voting outcome in period t becomes the status quo in period t+1. We study symmetric Markov equilibria of the resulting game …-the-dollar) environments. In particular, we investigate the effects of concavity in the utility functions, the existence of a Condorcet winning … alternative, and the discount factor (committee impatience). We report several new findings. Voting behavior is selfish and myopic …