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Konyukhovskiy, Pavel V.; Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2018

Proxy wars are a key pattern of political conflict and interstate competition. Rather than resorting to direct conflicts, which are costly and entail a higher level of uncertainty, governments may opt for proxy wars, which may last longer, but are less costly and render them more immune to...

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Turkish Voter Response to Government Incompetence and Corruption Related to the 1999 Earthquakes

Akarca, Ali T.; Tansel, Aysit - 2012

The two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999, caused enormous amounts of death and destruction, and exposed rampant government corruption involving construction and zoning code violations, as a factor magnifying the disaster. The opposition parties and one of the incumbent...

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Federal directives, local discretion and the majority rule

Loeper, Antoine - 2010

We consider a federation in which citizens determine by federal majority rule a discretionary policy space which partially restricts the sovereignty of member states. Citizens first vote on the size of the discretionary space (the degree of local discretion), and then on its location on the...

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Influential opinion leaders

Steiner, Jakub; Stewart, Colin - 2010

We present a simple model of elections in which experts with special interests endorse candidates and endorsements are observed by the voters. We show that the equilibrium election outcome is biased towards the experts' interests even though voters know the distribution of expert interests and...

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Contractual federalism and strategy-proof coordination

Loeper, Antoine - 2008

This paper takes a mechanism design approach to federalism and assumes that local preferences are the private information of local jurisdictions. Contractual federalism is defined as a strategy-proof contract among the members of the federation supervised by a benevolent but not omniscient...

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Dynamic collective choice with endogenous status quo

Dziuda, Wioletta; Loeper, Antoine - 2012

This paper analyzes an ongoing bargaining situation in which preferences evolve over time and the previous agreement becomes the next status quo, determining the payoffs until a new agreement is reached. We show that the endogeneity of the status quo exacerbates the players' conflict of interest...

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Direct democracy, political delegation, and responsibility substitution

Prato, Carlo; Strulovici, Bruno - 2010

Can direct democracy provisions improve welfare over pure representative democracy? This paper studies how such … provisions affect politicians' incentives and selection. While direct democracy allows citizens to correct politicians' mistakes … problems. A lower cost of direct democracy induces a negative spiral on politicians incentives, which we characterize by a …

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The political economy of higher education finance: How information and design affect public preferences for tuition

Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2019

Public preferences for charging tuition are important for determining higher education finance. To test whether public support for tuition depends on information and design, we devise several survey experiments in representative samples of the German electorate (N19,500). The electorate is...

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Do party positions affect the public's policy preferences?

Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina - 2019

The standard assumption of exogenous policy preferences implies that parties set their positions according to their voters' preferences. We investigate the reverse effect: Are the electorates' policy preferences responsive to party positions? In a representative German survey, we inform...

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An economic model of the meat paradox

Hestermann, Nina; Le Yaouanq, Yves; Treich, Nicolas - 2019

Many individuals have empathetic feelings towards animals but frequently consume meat. We investigate this "meat paradox" using insights from the literature on motivated reasoning in moral dilemmata. We develop a model where individuals form self-serving beliefs about the suffering of animals...

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