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Minority protection in voting mechanisms : experimental evidence
Engelmann, Dirk; Grüner, Hans Peter; Hoffmann, Timo; … - 2023
Under simple majority voting an absolute majority of voters may choose policies that are harmful to minorities. It is … the purpose of sub- and super-majority rules to protect legitimate minority interests. We study how voting rules are … choose voting rules for given distributions of gains and losses that can arise from a policy, but before learning their own …
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The political economy of negotiating international carbon markets
Arvaniti, Maria; Habla, Wolfgang - 2020 - This version: April 2020
International carbon markets are frequently propagated as an efficient instrument for reducing CO2 emissions. We argue that such markets, despite their desirable efficiency properties, might not be in the best interest of governments who are guided by strategic considerations in negotiations. We...
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Why should majority voting be unfair?
Breitmoser, Yves; Tan, Jonathan H. W. - 2017
and bargaining games from three seminal social preference experiments. …
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Getting it right : communication, voting, and collective truth finding
Burdea, Valeria; Woon, Jonathan - 2023
We conduct an experiment in which groups are tasked with evaluating the truth of a set of politically relevant facts and statements, and we investigate whether communication improves information aggregation and the accuracy of group decisions. Our findings suggest that the effect of...
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Mixed motives : an empirical analysis of ILO roll-call votes
Boockmann, Bernhard - 2002
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A rationale for unanimity in committees
Breitmoser, Yves; Valasek, Justin - 2017
rationale for the widespread use of unanimous voting. …
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Does demography determine democratic attitudes?
Kotschy, Rainer; Sunde, Uwe - 2022
This paper presents new evidence on how demography affects democratic attitudes in Western democracies. Using individual survey responses, the empirical analysis disentangles age from cohort patterns and other contemporaneous economic and political influences that shape democratic attitudes. The...
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Political budget cycles in European public procurement
Havlik, Annika - 2020
This paper studies whether political budget cycles occur in public procurement in the European Union. Using project- level data from Tenders Electronic Daily (2008-2018), I analyze different steps along the procurement process, namely the publication of the contract notice, the awarding of the...
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Election cycles in European public procurement
Havlik, Annika; Heinemann, Friedrich; Nover, Justus - 2021
This paper studies the existence of election cycles in public procurement in the European Union for the national level. We analyze different steps along the procurement process, namely the publication of the contract notice, the awarding of the contract, and the project completion. We point out...
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The political economy of stranded assets : climate policies, investments and the role of elections
Hagen, Achim; Kollenbach, Gilbert - 2024
We study the interaction of climate policies and investments into fossil and renewable energy generation capacity if policies are set by democratically elected governments and can lead to stranded assets. We develop an overlapping generations model, where elections determine carbon taxation and...
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